freebsd-ports/devel/p5-Storable/pkg-descr

       The Storable package brings you persistency for your perl
       data structures containing SCALAR, ARRAY, HASH or REF
       objects, i.e. anything that can be convenientely stored to
       disk and retrieved at a later time.

       It can be used in the regular procedural way by calling
       store with a reference to the object to store, and
       providing a file name. The routine returns undef for I/O
       problems or other internal error, a true value otherwise.
       Serious errors are propagated as a die exception.

       To retrieve data stored to disk, you use retrieve with a
       file name, and the objects stored into that file are
       recreated into memory for you, and a reference to the root
       object is returned. In case an I/O error occurred while
       reading, undef is returned instead. Other serious errors
       are propagated via die.
Import of p5-Storable, a module for storing data structures intact and reading them back in later or in another program 1997-07-09 23:19:15 +00:00			`The Storable package brings you persistency for your perl`
			`data structures containing SCALAR, ARRAY, HASH or REF`
			`objects, i.e. anything that can be convenientely stored to`
			`disk and retrieved at a later time.`

			`It can be used in the regular procedural way by calling`
			`store with a reference to the object to store, and`
			`providing a file name. The routine returns undef for I/O`
			`problems or other internal error, a true value otherwise.`
			`Serious errors are propagated as a die exception.`

			`To retrieve data stored to disk, you use retrieve with a`
			`file name, and the objects stored into that file are`
			`recreated into memory for you, and a reference to the root`
			`object is returned. In case an I/O error occurred while`
			`reading, undef is returned instead. Other serious errors`
			`are propagated via die.`