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in reply to Re: "animal"
in thread "animal"

The print Dumper($info); bit already reproduces the data in a form Perl can parse. If dumped to a file, you can use do 'FILE' to read it back in.

There are more sophisticated approaches of course, but this probably suffices here.

Makeshifts last the longest.