How do I read back in the output of Data::Dumper?

Question

Let\'s say I have a text file created using Data::Dumper, along the lines of:

my $x = [ { foo => \'bar\', asdf => undef }, 0, -4, [ [] ] ];

Answer 1

Are you sure that file was created by Data::Dumper? There shouldn't be a my in there.

Some other options are Storable, YAML, or DBM::Deep. I go through some examples in the "Persistence" chapter of Mastering Perl.

Good luck, :)