Hi

Basically I'm attaempting to store some complex perl data structures in a DBM hash flatfile database using the DBM::Deep module from CPAN.

A simplified version of the problem is this. Imagine a script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBM::Deep;

my $db = new DBM::Deep "db.file";

$db->{hash}->{key}->[0] = 10;

print $db->{hash}->{key}->[0];

exit;

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Basically, the first time the script runs, the db file is created but the variable isn't printed. It has to be run a second time before the value is allocated to the variable and the print occurs. After the second run it works fine. This may not seem like a problem in the above script but it is a serious problem in the actual script I'm trying to implement which is using incrementing counts and autovivification.

Any suggestions?

Cheers in advance,

tb34

In reply to DBM::Deep Problem by travisbickle34

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