Editing Serialization (section)

===Perl===
Several [[Perl]] modules available from [[CPAN]] provide serialization mechanisms, including <code>Storable</code> , <code>JSON::XS</code> and <code>FreezeThaw</code>. Storable includes functions to serialize and deserialize Perl data structures to and from files or Perl scalars. In addition to serializing directly to files, <code>Storable</code> includes the <code>freeze</code> function to return a serialized copy of the data packed into a scalar, and <code>thaw</code> to deserialize such a scalar. This is useful for sending a complex data structure over a [[network socket]] or storing it in a database. When serializing structures with <code>Storable</code>, there are network safe functions that always store their data in a format that is readable on any computer at a small cost of speed. These functions are named <code>nstore</code>, <code>nfreeze</code>, etc. There are no "n" functions for deserializing these structures&nbsp;— the regular <code>thaw</code> and <code>retrieve</code> deserialize structures serialized with the "<code>n</code>" functions and their machine-specific equivalents.