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in reply to reading the hash information from a file

I'm not exactly sure I understand your question, but if you've got a hash dumped to a file (from something like print Dumper( \%hash )) and you trust the file source, you could read it in to a string and eval it.

If you are using the file as a simplified database, you may want to consider DBM::Deep or Storable.

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Re: reading the hash information from a file
by b10m (Vicar) on Feb 16, 2007 at 09:01 UTC

    ... or YAML

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    b10m

    All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.