$tied_hash{list} = [1,2,3,4,5]; my $sync_dbm_obj = tie %tied_hash, 'MLDBM::Sync', '/tmp/mldbmsync', O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0640; # modify list my $listref = $tied_hash{list}; push(@$listref,6); # store list back into hash. $tied_hash{list} = $listref; # did it work? @values = @{$tied_hash{list}}; print @values;