It was almost 4AM when I posted that, and I did make a mistake.

Maybe - I only found one good example from a super search here, but it used DB_File, which isn't part of the core distribution.

should read

Maybe - I only found one good example from a super search here and many references to DB_File, but they both required modules which are not part of the core distribution. Well, at least NDBM_File was not on my installation of ActivePerl

Obviously tie is the better choice or dbmopen wouldn't have become deprecated, but why was it so hard to find an example of how to do it.

Limbic~Region

In reply to Re: To tie or to dbmopen by Anonymous Monk
in thread To tie or to dbmopen by Limbic~Region

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