in reply to perl dbm problem

Right now, your code overwrites the entire %BOOK hash each time. If you weren't using DB_File and your html library, and wanted to store several entries in %BOOK and then print them out, how would you do it? That doesn't change under DB_File, since it just stores the hash on disk.

-xdg

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