I will post my code at the bottom of this message. What I meant with $dbm{$name} = $name; was it would hold Aaron as the key and Aaron as the value so if I were to print out the database it would print Aaron Aaron.

The code that works for me is actually $dbm{$name} = "";, it's the only one that does what I want. You can test the script itself from what I posted below.

#!/usr/bin/perl -W

use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;
use CGI;

require SDBM_File;

my %dbm;
my $test = "test.dbm";

tie (%dbm, 'SDBM_File', $test, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644)
   || die "Died tying database\nReason: $!\n";
   
print "Aaron's Phonebook System\n\n\n";

print "What is their name?\n";
my $name = $_;
#if ($name ne "") {
chomp($name = <STDIN>);
$dbm{$name} = "";

print "Added to the list!\n";

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In reply to Re: Re: Database storage confusion by sulfericacid
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