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diff --git a/devel/p5-Storable/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Storable/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b300ed7f49c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-Storable/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ + 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. |