MK wrote:
when i "use DB_File" the files produced lack a dot in their title, eg.
dbmopen %email, email.db, 0666;
manipulates a file who's directory entry is actually emaildb
MORE IMPORTANTLY, perl will not access a database outside of the same
directory as the script -- it pulls a blank hash. without being able to
include any functional path in the filenames, i can't even call the
script with a soft link...i have to use a shell script to cd first
that is ridiculous and i presume a bug that may have been fixed somewhere?
perl 5.8.8 on fedora 7
Put these two lines at the top of your program:
use warnings;
use strict;
And perl will tell you that you are concatenating two barewords.
email.db is tranlated by perl as 'email' . 'db' and there is no "dot" in
the concatenation of those two strings.
John
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