Data from another platform: Win95 / ActiveState v5.6.0 (build 623): 1212/10001  # huh? Ok, this made me want to try Chromatic's code: 10001/10000  # as expected since he did (0..$count)

Now the interesting thing is I had to install DB_File on This Old Box™ before running Chromatic's version, so just for fun what does Stamp_Guy's code do now? 10001/10001 # aha!

Now it certainly looks like there was something broken in my first test of Stamp_Guy's code that was fixed in the install. I removed DB_File and sure enough Stamp_Guy's code is borken again. Evidently (and I'm sure there are many here who can explain this) plain old dbmopen defaults to a defective DB that is included with the core ActiveState install. When you install a better one such as that in DB_File, it supersedes the broken one.

Update: Just to be clear, the first and third results were produced with Stamp_Guy's code unmodified from the root note of this thread. It turns out that Stamp_Guy is using Win98 and I used Win95 for my tests above, but when I repeated the tests on my NT4 box with the same ActiveState Perl build, the correct output appears even without DB_File, so now I suspect an OS problem, and not a problem with the default key+value size limitation in SDBM of 1024 bytes (see perldoc anydbm_file).

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In reply to Re: A major problem/bug with DBM drivers on Windows machines by Albannach
in thread A major problem/bug with DBM drivers on Windows machines by Stamp_Guy

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