I notice you use Tie::File and Im sure I read in the pod that Tie was redundant and DBI should be used.

I don't see that anywhere in its pod, but Tie::File and DBI do completely different things. Use Tie::File when you need to access a file (any type of text file) through an array interface. Use DBI when you want to access a datasource (could be a file, or a RDBMS) through statements in a data-querying language. I don't believe either one could make the other redundant.

Tie::File is included in the core Perl distribution since version 5.8.0, which is a pretty good indication of the robustness of its code. Apart from that, it's a pure Perl module, so you can just put the .pm file in the same directory as your script and it will work fine.

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