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Managing DBM Files
What are DBM files?

  • DBM is an acronym which stands for Data Base Management

  • A DBM file is simply a binary database of key-value pairs

  • Perl enables you to "bind" an associative array variable to a DBM file using the dbmopen() function

  • The contents of the DBM file may then be manipulated by simply referencing or assigning to the associative array variable!