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.IX Title "Storable 3pm"
.TH Storable 3pm 2024-02-05 "perl v5.38.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
PDL::IO::Storable \- helper functions to make PDL usable with Storable
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\&  use Storable;
\&  use PDL::IO::Storable;
\&  $hash = {
\&            \*(Aqfoo\*(Aq => 42,
\&            \*(Aqbar\*(Aq => zeroes(23,45),
\&          };
\&  store $hash, \*(Aqperlhash.dat\*(Aq;
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\&\f(CW\*(C`Storable\*(C'\fR implements object persistence for Perl data structures that can
contain arbitrary Perl objects. This module implements the relevant methods to
be able to store and retrieve ndarrays via Storable.
.SH FUNCTIONS
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.SS store
.IX Subsection "store"
store an ndarray using Storable
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.SS freeze
.IX Subsection "freeze"
freeze an ndarray using Storable
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\&  $frozen = $x\->freeze;
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.SH AUTHOR
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Copyright (C) 2013 Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>
Copyright (C) 2002 Christian Soeller <c.soeller@auckland.ac.nz>
All rights reserved. There is no warranty. You are allowed
to redistribute this software / documentation under certain
conditions. For details, see the file COPYING in the PDL
distribution. If this file is separated from the PDL distribution,
the copyright notice should be included in the file.