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in reply to Read the Dumper data back to a hash.

Don't dump the hash as 

print Dumper %hash;

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But rather use 

print Dumper \%hash;
#            ^

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Then you can simply use eval to obtain a hash reference, so for example 

my %copied_hash = %{ eval $string };

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Re^2: Read the Dumper data back to a hash.
by rachitmohta11 (Novice) on Jun 21, 2010 at 07:07 UTC
    What is $string in eval $string? Is it the file handle?
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      The string returned by Dumper.

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        Sorry, but i could not understand.
        Please tell me how does Dumper return the string..
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