On Dec 10, 2003, at 11:34 PM, Joel Newkirk wrote: [..]
[..]I found my problem - apparently webmin was doing "use GDBM_File;" for me, which is why it worked in the webmin module, and since I wasn't including either that or the webmin "web-lib.pl" it was defaulting to a different DB format, hence the "File Not Found" error. Once I include "Use GDBM_File;" I can successfully read the DBM written by the webmin module. Doh! Maybe my second week with Perl will be smoother... ;^)
p0: if you want to have 'compatibility' with webmin, you might work out whether or not you too should be 'sourcing in' their web-lib.pl information as a way to keep your 'basics' consistent with theirs.
p1: thanks for explaining that you were planning on actually using that foo.dbm to create the
foo.dbm.pag
foo.dbm.direven if that makes me go YIKES! may I recommend that you adopt the naming strategy
foo_dbm
so as not to scare 'old guys'....
p2: You might also want to look at
use SDBM_File;
which is a db format that comes with Perl and is actually a bit More ubiquitous than the GDBM_File format, which assumes that the build out of perl already had the underlying gdbm libraries.
p3: It all goes down hill from here...
Since of course I will go back to my general recommendation to heed the warning and shift to 'tie' . That way of course would lead you into creating your own stand alone DB Abstraction Layer, where you hide from yourself and the rest of the system what you are doing with the 'db stuff' - and since you will be building that out using h2xs to correctly form up your perl modules, it will be all so much easier.....
p4: and on the 3rd week of perl programming.....
ciao drieux
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