[Omaha.pm] Pulling in a hash via "exec"...FAIL

Jay Hannah jay at jays.net
Wed Aug 6 15:22:03 PDT 2008


On Aug 6, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Dan Linder wrote:
> I've got one program that generates a hash and then uses Data::Dump  
> to write this structure to a text file:
> printf FILE Data::Dumper->Dump(\%fields],['fields']);

Data::Dump isn't meant to be used like that. Use Storable instead:

http://search.cpan.org/~ams/Storable-2.18/Storable.pm#EXAMPLES

Much easier to use, and it works.  :)

j




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