baking cookies

[Dean A. Hoover]

In CGI.pm there is a function for making a cookie
from a scalar, hash, or array. It apparentley does
not support lists of lists, hashes of lists, etc.
Is there existing code that will do that?

Thanks.
Dean

 

[Paul Lalli]

In CGI.pm there is a function for making a cookie
from a scalar, hash, or array.
It apparentley does
not support lists of lists, hashes of lists, etc.

There's no such thing as a list of lists, or a hash of lists. There
are lists of array references, and hashes of array references, however.

Is there existing code that will do that?

To my knowledge, what you're looking for doesn't quite make sense. A
cookie can have one value, or a series of values. A series of series
of values is something altogether different.

Perhaps you should look into saving your complex data structure as one
large string? Have a look at the Storable module on CPAN.

Paul Lalli

 

[Damian James]

In CGI.pm there is a function for making a cookie
from a scalar, hash, or array. It apparentley does
not support lists of lists, hashes of lists, etc.
Is there existing code that will do that?

Look at Data:umper.

--Damian