I have a simple getdata perl script which is used to get users First Name, Last Name and their email details. I'm getting these details from a file(test.txt). test.txt has 25 fields separated by "|" delimiter and I'm getting only 3 fields using my getdata script. I couldn't understand the behavior of this script. I need help in understanding the below script.

#!/opt/perl/5.8.0/bin/perl
#ident "%W%"
use CGI qw(:standard);
use GDBM_File ;
use POSIX qw(fcntl_h errno_h);
use Getopt::Std;
use Fcntl;

$dbfile_exist = "no";

$arg1 = $ARGV[0]; # Argument 1 is the User ID.

$dbmdatabase = "/home/bheeshmaraja/test.txt";

if (-f "$dbmdatabase") {
        $dbfile_exist = "yes";
} else {
        print "NULL";
        exit 0;
}

tie %DBMDB, GDBM_File, $dbmdatabase, &GDBM_READER, 0400 or die "Couldn
+'t tie NDBM file 'filename': $!; aborting";

untie %DBMDB;

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test.txt contains 5176219 lines. Could anyone help me to understand why I'm getting only 3 fields instead of all 25 fields by providing User Id as an argument. Thanks in Advance... Bheeshmaraja

In reply to GDBM_File with Tie function by bheeshmaraja

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