# GDBM_File.pm -- Perl 5 interface to GNU gdbm library. =head1 NAME GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library. =head1 SYNOPSIS use GDBM_File ; tie %hash, 'GDBM_File', $filename, &GDBM_WRCREAT, 0640; # Use the %hash array. untie %hash ; =head1 DESCRIPTION B is a module which allows Perl programs to make use of the facilities provided by the GNU gdbm library. If you intend to use this module you should really have a copy of the gdbm manualpage at hand. Most of the libgdbm.a functions are available through the GDBM_File interface. =head1 AVAILABILITY Gdbm is available from any GNU archive. The master site is C, but your are strongly urged to use one of the many mirrors. You can obtain a list of mirror sites by issuing the command C. =head1 BUGS The available functions and the gdbm/perl interface need to be documented. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L. =cut package GDBM_File; use strict; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT $AUTOLOAD); require Carp; require Tie::Hash; require Exporter; use AutoLoader; require DynaLoader; @ISA = qw(Tie::Hash Exporter DynaLoader); @EXPORT = qw( GDBM_CACHESIZE GDBM_FAST GDBM_INSERT GDBM_NEWDB GDBM_READER GDBM_REPLACE GDBM_WRCREAT GDBM_WRITER ); $VERSION = "1.00"; sub AUTOLOAD { my($constname); ($constname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://; my $val = constant($constname, @_ ? $_[0] : 0); if ($! != 0) { if ($! =~ /Invalid/) { $AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD = $AUTOLOAD; goto &AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD; } else { Carp::croak("Your vendor has not defined GDBM_File macro $constname, used"); } } eval "sub $AUTOLOAD { $val }"; goto &$AUTOLOAD; } bootstrap GDBM_File $VERSION; # Preloaded methods go here. Autoload methods go after __END__, and are # processed by the autosplit program. 1; __END__