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diff --git a/devel/p5-MLDBM/pkg/DESCR b/devel/p5-MLDBM/pkg/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..59fc10669da --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-MLDBM/pkg/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +This module can serve as a transparent interface to any TIEHASH package +that is required to store arbitrary perl data, including nested +references. Thus, this module can be used for storing references and +other arbitrary data within DBM databases. + +It works by serializing the references in the hash into a single string. +In the underlying TIEHASH package (usually a DBM database), it is this +string that gets stored. When the value is fetched again, the string is +deserialized to reconstruct the data structure into memory. |