#!/usr/bin/env perl ## use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; use Storable; my %hash1 = ( 'entry1' => 'value1', 'entry2' => 'value2' ); store \%hash1 , "serialized_file.data"; print "##### HASH1 #####\n"; print Dumper(\%hash1); my %hash2 = %{retrieve "serialized_file.data"}; print "\n##### HASH2 #####\n"; print Dumper(\%hash2); exit 0;