I've got some code that I've been trying to get to work but am failing pretty miserably at. I'm beginning to think it's just not possible to do this. Attached is a (possibly overly) simplified snippet of code

 
my @sciDbRows;
my @hkDbRows;
my @ancDbRows;

my %dbFileArray = (
               'sci' => \@sciDbRows,
               'hk' => \@hkDbRows,
               'anc' => \@ancDbRows
               );

sub open1 
{
               my $dbPath = '/home/user/SciPtrLoc.db';
               
               use Fcntl 'O_RDWR', 'O_CREAT';
               tie @sciDbRows, 'Tie::File', $dbPath, mode => O_RDWR | 
+O_CREAT or die;

}

sub write1
{
               my $part = 'sci';

               my $ref = $dbFileArray{ 'sci' };
               my @rows = @$ref;

               my $oneRec = "asdfg";
               push(@rows, $oneRec); # does NOT work
               push(@{$dbFileArray{ $part }}, $oneRec); #does work
               
               $oneRec = "qwerty";
               push(@sciDbRows, $oneRec); # does work


               
}              

open1();
write1();

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So I can push onto my tied file in some situations, but I'd like to get a better understanding what @{$dbFileArray{ $part }} actually is (an array? an array reference?) and also why I can't seem to assign it to a shorter and friendlier variable name, like @rows, so that later I can write 

      $rows[$index] = "new value";

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instead of 
      @{$dbFileArray{ $part }}[$index] = "new value";

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In reply to Looking for some insight on Tie::File by jweller1

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