Re: Re: Storable

[TheoPetersen]

An excellent technique which will find its way to my code very soon :)

My variation was to have a human-readable config file, but keep the actual data in a hash written out by Storable. At startup the program checked the dates of the two files and re-parsed the config file if needed. I hadn't thought of using it to maintain user state though, nice job.

[tye]

...or do both in one shot with Data::Dumper. Doing this prevented me from having to define a human-readable configuration-file syntax. Though I do process the Data::Dumper output slightly.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

[crazyinsomniac]

Is XML human readable form? Is it better than Data::Dumper output? Well it is an alternative, discussion at XML-ish Data::Dumper? is worth a read.

 


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