Section 4 - Other Methods:

I will briefly discuss how you can store your information using other methods in Perl. To store data you must serialize, flatten it or whatever you want to call it. You do this by turning your complex data into easily writeable data.

A number of modules have been created to let you easily do this, and have become very useful in many cases. Modules such as Storable, Data::Dumper, XML::Dumper can help you accomplish your job easier. You can find out more information on using these modules at http://www.cpan.org and their respective manpages.