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prashantpal84 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All,
my $var = {A => 1}; my $string = "$var"; print Dumper $string;
OP ---
$VAR1 = 'HASH(0x81b2818)';
Caught up in the scenario where we need to pull hash from string 'HASH(0x81b2818)'.