Writing a persistent perl script

Question

I am trying to write a persistent/cached script. The code would look something like this:

...
Memoize(\'process_fille\');
print process_file($ARGV[0]);
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Answer 1

No. Not directly but can be achieved by very many ways.

1) I understand **extract_values_from_file()** parses given file returning hash.
2) 1 can be made as a script, then dump the parsed hash using **Data::Dumper** into file.
3) When running my_script.pl, ensure that file generated by 2 is later than of the config file. Can achieve this via **make**
3.1) **use** the file generated by 2 to retrieve values.

The same can be achieved via freeze/thaw