Re^2: trouble replacing dbmopen with tie

I don't claim to have a definitive answer. My hunch is that tie is much more flexible and Perl-ish function.

That's a good hunch, which seems to be already documented. Note the argument list:

'perldoc -f dbmopen': dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK
'perldoc -f tie': tie VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST

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MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.