tie DB_File flags

[Ken Gillett]

Information about these has proved hard to come by, but having 
ascertained what I need to use I find another problem. I want to 
calculate the flags to use beforehand, but if I try

        tie %$dbm, "DB_File", $dbf, $dbflags, $mode, $DB_HASH;
even though $dbflags contains O_RDONLY I get the following error:=
	Argument "O_RDONLY" isn't numeric in subroutine entry at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i686-linux/DB_File.pm

This is caused by using the variable for the flags and if I replace 
that with the actual string (no quotes) it works fine, so it's happy 
with $dbf and $mode.

I'm using 5.8.6, but the problem also exists with 5.8.5 at least.
Can anyone suggest how I can get around this and use a variable for the 
flags?


Ken  G i l l e t t
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