You can look at the BerkeleyDB module documentation; the tied hash implementation is more or less the same as DB_File, except that it gives you full control over the database. Also, you can look at the documentation of the BerkeleyDB API itself, which can give you an idea what it can do.

I don't know what you mean by "display in the order"; it would depend on how you're doing the displaying. Do you mean that keys(%myDB) will return the order of insertion?

If you're interested in the order of insertion, you may want to look at the DB_RECNO type instead. The BTree will order by key value.

Look at Sleepycat's documentation on BerkeleyDB for details on how this all works. And look into using the BerkeleyDB module instead of DB_File if you want finer-grained control over ordering, duplicate keys, locking, etc.

In reply to Re: Question regarding DB_File by bikeNomad
in thread Question regarding DB_File by Stamp_Guy

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