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Re: [MacPerl] Storable in ASCII or XML?



>On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:03:07AM -0700, Andrew O. Mellinger wrote:
>  > Y'all,
>  >
>  >    Does anyone know if there is a Storable that emits ASCII instead of
>  > binary?  Or maybe better yet, emits to XML?  I've been thinking of
>  > something like that.
>  >    I want something as easy as Storable, but is in editable ASCII.
>  > Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>Data::Dumper?

   Thanks for all the answers!

   I think that is what I'll end up using.  I was hoping to find 
something as simple as store and retrieve.  Sure the code is simple, 
(open the file and writing, etc) but isn't nearly as elegant.  I am 
rather lazy I suppose.

-Andrew

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