You have several problems here. Some are just usage issues, and some are more serious:

• "0666" is a different thing than 0666. You should be using the latter.
• What is "DB_HASH"? That doesn't mean anything, as far as I can tell. If you're using DB_File, then $DB_HASH means something--but in that case, why use AnyDBM_File?

Which brings me to...

Why are you using AnyDBM_File? I think you should just use DB_File itself if you want to use DB_File--in which case you should read the DB_File docs, and in which case you can just do something like this:

use DB_File;
my %database;
tie %database, 'DB_File', "bar" or die "Can't tie: $!";
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because

tie %database, 'DB_File', "bar"
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is equivalent to

tie %database, 'DB_File', "bar", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0666, $DB_HASH;
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Does this make sense?

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