I've encountered a funky problem while testing a simple database access program written in Visual Basic. No I'm just kidding, it's Perl of course! Listen here's the story in brief. I have a Perl cgi script take registered user's names and emails into a database hash. No problem.

Just this morning, to test things, I whipped up a quick and dirty just to see who was currently in the database:

my (%MEMBERS,
   $member);

dbmopen(%MEMBERS, "/httpd/userDBASE/contact", undef)
        or die "Couldn't open DBASE: $!\n";

for $member(sort keys %MEMBERS) {
        print "$member ---> $MEMBERS{$member}\n";
}

#dmbclose(%MEMBERS);
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I know your first complaint is going to be concerning my use of dbmopen (which is deprecated), but the "Llama" tells me to do so, and I follow. Running this script, I do get the output I want, however I get this message:

Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
+/i686-linux/DB_File.pm line 259.
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Yes, I have opened the .pm file and looked at, but the values on 259 are infact initialized? From .pm file:

sub tie_hash_or_array
{
    my (@arg) = @_ ;
    my $tieHASH = ( (caller(1))[3] =~ /TIEHASH/ ) ;

    $arg[4] = tied %{ $arg[4] }
        if @arg >= 5 && ref $arg[4] && $arg[4] =~ /=HASH/ && tied %{ $
+arg[4] } ;

    # make recno in Berkeley DB version 2 work like recno in version 1
+.
    if ($db_version > 1 and defined $arg[4] and $arg[4] =~ /RECNO/ and
        $arg[1] and ! -e $arg[1]) {
        open( FH, ">$arg[1]") or return undef ;
        close FH ;
        chmod $arg[3] ? $arg[3] : 0666 , $arg[1] ;
    }

    DoTie_($tieHASH, @arg) ;
}
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line 259 is that DoTie_ ....
Any thoughts from my fellow monks would hugely ease my troubled mind. I hope this *.pm file doesn't require an exorcism ceremony!

Thank you kindly,
John

update (broquaint): $subject =~ s/Berkley/Berkeley/