Robin,

> I prefer JSON because I don't ever edit by hand, and JSON is much
> faster.

In this case, wouldn't a Perl structure make more sense?

Nope. Storable is much slower than JSON. And architecture changes can cause data loss.

Regards,
Jared 

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