I willl certainly check on this although I would make a few observations, this is revision 22 in a series for this particular CPAN module. It works fine under 5.6. Do you suppose that some newness in DB_File might be the problem, for instance I can tell you that the files in question were generated by an older version, possibly a much older version. I think having just said that I will revisit the process where by I built the files in the first place, delete and rebuild and then retest---this feels like a likely thing to do just to be safe anyway. Thanks!!

Update: The problem was in fact a version problem. DB_File of course changes over time as do most things perl. And not to surprisingly it wasn't backwards compatible (typically a race that can't be won anyway) and I was partially stung by that and by how I build new releases. Since changes involve iterative testing I don't bother to re-create the db files after the new versions for the release are created. Silly me! In this case that meant the versions in my dev directory were out of synch with what I actually wanted. Note to self---revise test/build procedures to eliminate dangerous assumptions (redundant for emphasis). Thanks to all!!

--hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

In reply to Re^2: A problem with tie by hsmyers
in thread A problem with tie by hsmyers

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