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in thread A problem with eval via DB_File->filter_fetch_value() and AUTOLOAD

I've read the doco on DBM::Deep.

It won't help me. I like the flat file create by DB_File with $DB_RECNO. In fact, I'm sort of hooked on it.

What I was originally asking was: "can someone tell me why this is".

So far all I've gotten are recommendations for other approaches.

If I have a reference that is blessed into a class, why wouldn't the AUTOLOAD method of that class work? That's the real problem that I'm looking for an answer to.

- Darrin

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Re^7: A problem with eval via DB_File->filter_fetch_value() and AUTOLOAD
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Apr 27, 2005 at 00:35 UTC
    Best I can guess is a bug in the implementation of DB_File. I source-dove and got lost in the XS. Here's the thing - DB_File is really a tied hash. It pretends to be a tied array, if you want to, but I don't think it's really set up to be one. Create a .t that demonstrates the bug and what you think it should do, then submit it to http://rt.cpan.org

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