test.pl:

use Tie::File;
use Data::Dumper;

my $self = tie @array, "Tie::File", "test.pl";
print Dumper($self);
print $array[2];
print Dumper($self);

##</code><code>##

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'autochomp' => 1,
                 'mode' => 258,
                 'deferred_s' => 0,
                 'autodefer_threshhold' => 3,
                 'sawlastrec' => undef,
                 'defer' => 0,
                 'dw_size' => 2097152,
                 'offsets' => [
                                0
                              ],
                 'deferred_max' => -1,
                 'autodeferring' => 0,
                 'recsep' => '

',
                 'rdonly' => '',
                 'memory' => 2097152,
                 'filename' => 'test.pl',
                 'fh' => \*Tie::File::FH,
                 'ad_history' => [],
                 'autodefer' => 1,
                 'deferred' => {},
                 'autodefer_filelen_threshhold' => 65536,
                 'recseplen' => 2,
                 'cache' => bless( [
                                     bless( [
                                              [
                                                0,
                                                $VAR1->{'cache'},
                                                0
                                              ]
                                            ], 'Tie::File::Heap' ),
                                     {},
                                     2097152,
                                     0
                                   ], 'Tie::File::Cache' )
               }, 'Tie::File' );
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'autochomp' => 1,
                 'mode' => 258,
                 'deferred_s' => 0,
                 'autodefer_threshhold' => 3,
                 'sawlastrec' => undef,
                 'defer' => 0,
                 'dw_size' => 2097152,
                 'offsets' => [
                                0,
                                '16',
                                '35'
                              ],
                 'deferred_max' => -1,
                 'autodeferring' => 0,
                 'recsep' => '

',
                 'rdonly' => '',
                 'memory' => 2097152,
                 'filename' => 'test.pl',
                 'fh' => \*Tie::File::FH,
                 'ad_history' => [],
                 'autodefer' => 1,
                 'deferred' => {},
                 'autodefer_filelen_threshhold' => 65536,
                 'recseplen' => 2,
                 'cache' => bless( [
                                     bless( [
                                              [
                                                1,
                                                $VAR1->{'cache'},
                                                1
                                              ],
                                              [
                                                0,
                                                2,
                                                '

'
                                              ]
                                            ], 'Tie::File::Heap' ),
                                     {
                                       '2' => 1
                                     },
                                     2097152,
                                     2
                                   ], 'Tie::File::Cache' )
               }, 'Tie::File' );