On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:27:35AM -0500, Mark Galbreath wrote: > looks way cool - thx Chris. Does libgdbm come with perl distros? I > notice the man page is already on my RH Enterprise 4 client. The reason > I ask is that it is very painful to get the government to change anything > on a server without lengthy and exhaustive QA. I'd like to start using > stuff like this before 2010. :-)
You don't have to use gdbm. You can use whatever library you've been using with dbmopen(). If you do have gdbm, GDBM_File would be a good choice. Other options include DB_File, SDBM_File, and NDBM_File. AnyDBM_File has a comparison of the different libraries. Ronald