On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 15:23 -0400, John Saylor wrote: > i have a problem with initializing perl data structures from the db. i > have an init routine that does all kinds of stuff and is called from > startup.pl. one of the things i wanted it to do was to grab some stuff > from the db and populate a hash with it.
Okay, where are you getting stuck? > it works on perl 5.8.x but not on earlier versions [upgrading is not an > option at this time]. What does? - Perrin