OK I tried to just read it with DB_File as you suggested, and it worked.

The code:

use strict;
use MLDBM qw(DB_File);
my $db = 'data_db';
my %records;
my $dbh = tie %records, 'MLDBM', $db or die $!;
my $junk = 1;

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Something else interesting: If I set a breakpoint on the last line and run it straight to there, I get the error about Dumper.pm. If I step through the tie statement with the debugger, I don't get the error. WTF? In that case the debugger lists type = exception for both $dbh and %records.

In reply to Re^3: MLDMB Problem by cormanaz
in thread MLDBM Problem by cormanaz

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