Monks,

I'm trying to use MLDBM::Easy so I can update a value in a HoA without having to use a temporary variable, but the value is not updated. The perldoc for MLDBM::Easy says:

This module allows you to work with multi-dimensional databases, just like MLDBM, but it does work behind the scenes to allow you to treat the multi-dimensional database like a normal data structure. Basically, you don't need to use the piecemeal access that MLDBM required: 

  # old and busted
  my $record = $db{some_key};
  $record->[2] += 100;
  $db{some_key} = $record;

  # new hotness
  $db{some_key}[2] += 100;

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The following things do work making me think my data structure is ok: Here's my simple example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;

use MLDBM::Easy;                         
use Fcntl;                         

my %hash; 
tie (%hash, 'MLDBM', 'testmldbm', O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0640) or die $!;

$hash{value1} = [ '0', '1', '2' ];  # assign anonymous array         
print "@{$hash{value1}}[0, 1, 2]\n";


$hash{value1}[2] += '1';      # add/modify element 2

untie %hash;

tie (%hash, 'MLDBM', 'testmldbm', O_RDWR, 0640) or die $!;
print "@{$hash{'value1'}}[0, 1, 2]\n";
untie %hash;

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Which yields the following output:

0 1 2
0 1 2

It seems like I must be doing something wrong!? Any suggestions?

Thank-you.

In reply to MLDBM::Easy does not update data structure by gctaylor1

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