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Just use to_json() to go from perl to json, and from_json() to go from json to perl. Here's an example:

use strict; use JSON; use Data::Dumper; # Here's some data my $data = { A => 1, B => "hello world", D => [ [ 'dog', 'cat', 'bird', ], [ 'red','green','blue'], ], D => { X => 1, Y => 2, } }; # print the data print Dumper($data), "\n"; # convert perl data to json, then print out the json my $json = to_json($data); print "$json\n"; # convert the json back to perl, then print it. # should be the same as before my $data2 = from_json($json); print Dumper($data2), "\n";