I did another test to see if I could read from it, but no such luck. Here's what I got: 
#!/usr/bin/perl5
use CGI qw(:standard); 
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
my $cgi = new CGI; 
use strict;
my @scott = $cgi->param('scott');
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my %PL;
dbmopen(%PL, "pricelist", 0777) || die "Can't open pricelist DBM: $!";
foreach my $scott (@scott) {
    if ($scott ne "") {
        if (defined $PL{$scott}) {
                my @split = split(/\|/, $PL{$scott});
            for(@split) {
                my ($description,$price) = split/,/;
                print "Scott: $scott\t$description\t$price\n";
            }
        }
        else {
            print "Scott number $scott not found\n";
        }
    }
}
dbmclose(%PL);

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Here's the error I get: 
Software error:
Missing $ on loop variable at blah blah blah/access.pl line 10.

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In reply to Re: Strange DBM behavior by Stamp_Guy
in thread Strange DBM behavior by Stamp_Guy

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