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Changes : - New major updated - Many of bugs fixed - New regression test (Please see ChangeLog for more about)
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The Storable extension brings persistency to your data.
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You may recursively store to disk any data structure, no matter
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how complex and circular it is, provided it contains only SCALAR,
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ARRAY, HASH (possibly tied) and references (possibly blessed) to
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those items.
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At a later stage, or in another program, you may retrieve data from
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the stored file and recreate the same hiearchy in memory. If you
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had blessed references, the retrieved references are blessed into
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the same package, so you must make sure you have access to the same
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perl class as the one used to create the relevant objects.
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There is also a dclone() routine which performs an optimized
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mirroring of any data structure, preserving its topology.
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Objects (blessed references) may also redefine the way storage and
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retrieval is performed, and/or what deep cloning should do on those
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objects.
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