How do I thaw and retrieve data from a "Storable file". Here's is the code I'm using for the CGI backend, it seem to work? Thanks for you time David 
CGI backend (and runtime errors):
Use of uninitialized value in read at ./hashbrowns.cgi line 10 and 27 (#1)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use Storable qw( nfreeze thaw );
my ($server,$ipaddr,$funct);
my ($FORM,$value,$pair,@pairs,$buffer,$name,%FORM);
######################################################
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    $value =~ s/\n/ /g; # replace newlines with spaces
    $value =~ s/\r//g;  # remove hard returns
    $value =~ s/\cM//g; # delete ^M's
    $FORM{$name} = $value;
}


#########################################################
#
open SERVERS, ">>/tmp/homefries.db"
   or die "Hold on there buckaroo: $!\n";
my $boxen = {
   'host' => "$FORM{hostess}",
   'address'=> "$FORM{ipaddr}",
   'funct' => "$FORM{funct}",
};
my $sirinfo = nfreeze( $boxen );
   $_ = unpack("H*", $sirinfo) ."\n";
print SERVERS $_;
print "$boxen->{host}\n";
print "$boxen->{address}\n";
print "$boxen->{funct}\n";
#
close SERVERS;
exit;

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My attemp at thawing datafile
Runtime error: Not an ARRAY reference at ./hashbrowns.pl line 11, <SERVERS> line 1 (#1)


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use Storable qw( nfreeze thaw );
my ($server,$ipaddr,$funct,$boxen,@fields);
open SERVERS, "/tmp/homefries.db"
   or die "Hold on there buckaroo: $!\n";
   while (<SERVERS>) {
   my $frozen = pack "H*", $_;
   my $fields = thaw($frozen);
   my ($server,$ipaddr,$funct) = @$fields;
}
close SERVERS;
exit;

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In reply to Storable: freeze/unfreeze by david.jackson

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