in reply to Storing hash with key & value in a file

Hi,

Check Storable module.

Example:
use Storable; store \%hash, 'filename'; $hashref = retrieve('filename');

This code stores the %hash into filename, the last line retrieves the stored hash from the file. if you wanted a hash instead of a hash reference, wrap the "retrieve" call in side %{}

my %original_hash = %{retrieve('filename')};

All is well