I don't think you were using it correctly, or you had some other bug in your code. Are you suggesting that Tie::File has a bug?
Look at the section 'mode' in "perldoc Tie::File" to see how to keep your file read-only.
I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
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The only bugs crawling around are those in my code. Sheepish Grin.
Thanks much for the suggestion about the read-only mode for that module and where to look for it. I am definitely going to study up on that and wire it into my script.
Wish I knew about this earlier. Like last year maybe. Sigh. But I know now. I'm off to pound more code!