MLDBM and Storable

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Re: MLDBM and Storable by mce (Curate) on Dec 24, 2002 at 08:27 UTC
Hi, What do you mean: .. have used both correctly... Plain MLDBM and Storable are complementary. You can use both to store a multilevel hash to disk. In fact MLDBM can use Storable as serialiser. So you don't need to use both. You need to use `use MLDBM qw(DB_File Storable);` [download] Once you tie-ed the hash, the rest is just transparent. Just fetching the value, setting is or destroying it will change the values on the disk. I hope this helps. If not, please post some code. --------------------------- Dr. Mark Ceulemans Senior Consultant IT Masters, Belgium	[reply] [d/l]
Re: MLDBM and Storable by FamousLongAgo (Friar) on Dec 24, 2002 at 04:48 UTC
Could you post the hash you are trying to store, and the unexpected results ( along with what you expected them to be )? That will help us help you.	[reply]
Re: Re: MLDBM and Storable by Anonymous Monk on Dec 24, 2002 at 05:01 UTC
The hash is of the type hash{name}{cookie}->[0] I am using the Data::Dumper module which is being very slow. I want to store this hash in MLDBM and then retrieve it at a later time for using it again. Thanx	[reply]