I am currently reading about the Perl DBI module, and the
first chapter explained about the Berkley DB_File and tieing
hashes to a file. I followed the example from the book and succesfully
got it working. However I then wrote a method that would
return a particular part of a string thus
(main parts of code)
my $db = tie %database, 'DB_File', "simpleinsert.dat",O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666 or die "Cannot initialise database";
$database{'anthony1'}=new contacts_db('anthony',
'ant@hot',
'14 road',
'102892',
'34567')->pack();
I can then access the name by
my $person = new contacts_db($database{'anthony1'});
$person->unpack_name();
this then returns 'anthony'.
but if i put
$database{'anthony1'}->unpack_name();
nothing is brought back, why??????????
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