Thanks,zentara and others. 2006/11/7, zentara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:58:47 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Practical Perl") wrote: >I saw a paper about DB_File, > > Three serialization wrappers are currently supported: Data::Dumper, > Storable, and FreezeThaw. Additional serializers can be supported by > writing a wrapper that implements the interface required by > MLDBM::Serializer. See the supported wrappers and the MLDBM::Serial- > izer source for details. > >can you tell me what's serialization?Thanks. It is a way of saving a data structure as a plain text string, which can then be re-contructed later into the same structure. It's especially useful if you want to send something like a hash over a socket connection. You just can't send a hash ( or array) over a socket. Sockets understand strings of characters only. -- I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. http://zentara.net/japh.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>