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.


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