On 2/12/1999 at 10:33, rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J. Kimball) wrote: > Where did you get the idea that you need the line number anyway? DB_File > is just a way of tying a hash to a file. You get values out a tied hash > the same way you get them out of a regular hash: $foo{key}. I was going by an example in the Perl Cookbook. I think I understand this now. Thanks. Richard Gordon Gordon Consulting & Design Voice: 770-565-8267 Fax: 770-971-6887 ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch