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This module can serve as a transparent interface to any TIEHASH package
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that is required to store arbitrary perl data, including nested
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references. Thus, this module can be used for storing references and
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other arbitrary data within DBM databases.
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It works by serializing the references in the hash into a single string.
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In the underlying TIEHASH package (usually a DBM database), it is this
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string that gets stored. When the value is fetched again, the string is
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deserialized to reconstruct the data structure into memory.
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