Simple, modern, robust, transparent persistence of data structures for Perl

Question

I\'m looking for a solution to transparently persist Perl data structures (not even objects, but object support would be a plus) without circular references. I don\'t c

Answer 1

Why not use JSON? It's rather easy (unless I misunderstood your question), all you would do is this:

use JSON;
# serialize to file
open(my $fh, ">myfile");
print $fh encode_json($ds); 
close $fh;
# deserialize from file
open(my $fh, ";
$ds = decode_json($content);
close $fh;

Another easy thing you can do is use Data::Dumper.