use strict; use warnings; use Tie::IxHash; use Data::Dumper; use Data::Rmap qw(:types rmap_to); sub ixhash_to_yamlxs { my $item = \+shift; my $get_yaml_struct = sub { my $raw = shift; my $ix = tied(%$raw); return $raw unless defined $ix and $ix->isa('Tie::IxHash'); return [ map { { $_ => $raw->{$_} } } $ix->Keys ]; }; rmap_to { $_ = $get_yaml_struct->($_) } HASH, $item; return $item; } sub yamlxs_to_ixhash { my $item = shift; my $make_ixhash_from_array = sub { my $raw = shift; tie my(%hash), 'Tie::IxHash'; eval { no warnings; for (@$raw) { return $raw if scalar keys $_ ne 1; my ($key) = keys $_; $hash{$key} = $_->{$key}; } }; return $raw if $@; return \%hash; }; rmap_to { $_ = $make_ixhash_from_array->($_) } ARRAY, \$item; return $item; } tie my(%embed), 'Tie::IxHash', (j => 5, k => 6, l => 7); tie my(%hash), 'Tie::IxHash', (a => 1, c => { z => 26 }, b => 2, d => [ 'j', 'k', 'l'], e => \%embed); my $out = ixhash_to_yamlxs \%hash; print Dumper $out; my $in = yamlxs_to_ixhash $out; print Dumper $in;