I am currently reading about the Perl DBI module, and the first chapter explained about the Berkley DB_File and tieing hashes to a file. I followed the example from the book and succesfully got it working. However I then wrote a method that would return a particular part of a string thus (main parts of code)

my $db = tie %database, 'DB_File', "simpleinsert.dat",O_CREAT | O_RDWR
+, 0666 or die "Cannot initialise database";

$database{'anthony1'}=new contacts_db('anthony',
                                     'ant@hot',
                                     '14 road',
                                     '102892',
                                     '34567')->pack();
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I can then access the name by

my $person = new contacts_db($database{'anthony1'});
$person->unpack_name();
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this then returns 'anthony'.

but if i put

$database{'anthony1'}->unpack_name();
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nothing is brought back, why??????????

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Casey
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