I don't think he wants to start fresh each time. He wants to save the data so he can display more than one line.

It looks like a CGI script that wants to accept a line of chat, then display the previous 10 lines. What it actually does is this:

  1. deletes all previous messages
  2. creates the db file, ties %chat
  3. unties %chat, thereby not storing any messages
  4. accepts a new message
  5. displays the last 10 messages (which were just deleted!)

Not only is the %chat untied from the the DB_File when it's tied to TIE::IxHash (as you pointed out), the script is deleting the DB_File every time it is hit.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: DB_File, not saving by jsprat
in thread DB_File, not saving by sulfericacid

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