heh - that was exactly half of what i was looking for - how to dump stuff! great :) mayby you can help me out with the second part too? : if i have a datastructure (a hash) dumped to a file using Data::Dumper, how can i recreate the datastructure/hash in another program? if i do something like this: open SOURCE, source.file; undef $/; eval SOURCE; die $@ if $@; close IN; then eval will turn the datastructure into a scalar? but i want it as a hash! or how does it work ? :o) martin ps, love the missile address line!Thread Previous | Thread Next