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The Storable package brings you persistency for your perl
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data structures containing SCALAR, ARRAY, HASH or REF
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objects, i.e. anything that can be convenientely stored to
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disk and retrieved at a later time.
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It can be used in the regular procedural way by calling
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store with a reference to the object to store, and
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providing a file name. The routine returns undef for I/O
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problems or other internal error, a true value otherwise.
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Serious errors are propagated as a die exception.
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To retrieve data stored to disk, you use retrieve with a
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file name, and the objects stored into that file are
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recreated into memory for you, and a reference to the root
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object is returned. In case an I/O error occurred while
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reading, undef is returned instead. Other serious errors
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are propagated via die.
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