For testing better use the default current working directory. Anyway the Perl dir from your example is not a good choice. ("f_dir" expects a path to the "database").

A quick example (not a style guide!):

The first script will create 3 files: "users.dir", "users.lck" and "users.pag", in the current dir.

The dbm-create.pl script example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:')
    or die "Can't connect to $DBI::errstr";

my $sql_create = 'CREATE TABLE users ( username TEXT, phone TEXT )';
$dbh->do($sql_create);

$dbh->do(
    "INSERT INTO users VALUES ('user1', '123-321123')"
);

$dbh->disconnect;

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The dbm-select.pl script example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:DBM:')
    or die "Can't connect to $DBI::errstr";

my $sql = "SELECT username, phone FROM users";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql)
    or die "Can't prepare statement: $DBI::errstr";

$sth->execute();

while ( my $rec = $sth->fetchrow_hashref('NAME_lc') ) {
    print $rec->{username}, ' : ', $rec->{phone}, "\n";
}

$dbh->disconnect;

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In reply to Re^3: DBI::DBM - How to use this for SQL connection by stefbv
in thread DBI::DBM - How to use this for SQL connection by Anonymous Monk

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