Ok david.
Could you send me a code example of a database file being opened for reading
with tie?
thanks,
bnegrao.
----- Original Message -----
From: "david" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: dbmopen can't open /etc/aliases.db file
> Bruno Negrao - Perl List wrote:
>
> > Hi Michael, the problem is not with the "undef" value - undef is fine -
> > if you read the dbmopen's documentation you could see it.
> >
> > If I choose a value like "0644" the script still doesn't work.
> > Bellow, is the output of the execution of the same program, but with
0644
> > in place of undef:
> >
> > Uncaught exception from user code:
> > No aliases!: Invalid argument at ./zz line 3.
> >
> > I must admit that the errors are shorter but the program still doesn't
> > work!!
> > Oh, hell!!!
> >
>
> the dbmopen function has been largely superseded by the "tie" function.
> you shouldn't use it in the first place.
>
> in older version of Perl or that your system do not support DBM or ndbm,
> calling dbmopen generates a fatal error and it tries the sdbm calls.
>
> try eval{ dbmopen(..) } and check the $@ error
>
> if you can, try not to use dbmopen at all, tie is better, safer and
faster.
>
> david
>
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