perl-MLDBM

This module can serve as a transparent interface to any TIEHASH package
that is required to store arbitrary perl data, including nested references.
Thus, this module can be used for storing references and other arbitrary
data within DBM databases.
It works by serializing the references in the hash into a single string. In
the underlying TIEHASH package (usually a DBM database), it is this string
that gets stored. When the value is fetched again, the string is
deserialized to reconstruct the data structure into memory.
For historical and practical reasons, it requires the Data::Dumper
package, available at any CPAN site. Data::Dumper gives you really
nice-looking dumps of your data structures, in case you wish to look at
them on the screen, and it was the only serializing engine before version
2.00. However, as of version 2.00, you can use any of Data::Dumper,
FreezeThaw or Storable to perform the underlying serialization, as
hinted at by the the SYNOPSIS manpage overview above. Using Storable is
usually much faster than the other methods.
See the the BUGS manpage section for important limitations.

          

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License: Artistic-1.0 or GPL-1.0+
URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/MLDBM/