And here's a from the docs (perldoc db_file) hack to read-in your text and create a dbm:
use strict ;
use DB_File ;
use vars qw( %h $k $v ) ;   # hash, key value

tie %h, "DB_File", "memberpoints", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0640, $DB_HASH
    or die "Cannot open file 'memberpoints': $!\n";

# Load in the whole file data file into the hash/dbm
open (FILE, "memberpoints.txt") or die "Can't read: $!";
while (<FILE>) {
  next unless /-/;
  chomp;
  my ($name, $number) = split "-";
  $h {$name} = $number;
}


# print the contents of the hash/dbm
while (($k, $v) = each %h) { 
  print "$k -> $v\n" 
}

untie %h ;

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Note: you'll do this once, then you need to write your update code along the lines of:
use strict ;
use DB_File ;
use vars qw( %h $k $v ) ;   # hash, key value

tie %h, "DB_File", "memberpoints", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0640, $DB_HASH
    or die "Cannot open file 'memberpoints': $!\n";


# update
$h{vegeta} += 6;

# print the contents of the db (debuggin)
while (($k, $v) = each %h) { 
  print "$k -> $v\n" 
}


untie %h ;

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Very rough but its cold here and my fingers are getting too stiff to type.

Update: Fruit? it really was cutnpaste ...

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