Experiments with PERL and BerkeleyDB

diff --git a/perl/db_file/.gitignore b/perl/db_file/.gitignore
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+*.db

diff --git a/perl/db_file/db.pl b/perl/db_file/db.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use BerkeleyDB;
+
+#my ( %h $k $v );
+tie my %h, "BerkeleyDB::Hash", -Filename => '_fruit.db', -Flags => DB_CREATE || die "Cannot open DB!\n";
+#tie my %h, "Tie::Hash::DBD", "dbi:SQLite:dbname=_sqlite.db";
+
+# Add a few key/value pairs to the file
+$h{"apple"} = "red";
+#$h{"banana"} = "yellow";
+$h{"orange"} = "orange";
+$h{"tomato"} = "red";
+
+use JSON;
+use Data::Dumper;
+#$h{"test"} = to_json({"from" => "to", "lol" => "rofl"});
+print $h{"test"}."\n";
+print Dumper(from_json($h{"test"}))."\n";
+
+
+# Check for existence of a key
+print "Banana Exists\n\n" if $h{"banana"};
+
+# Delete a key/value pair.
+delete $h{"apple"};
+
+# print the contents of the file
+while (my ($k, $v) = each %h) { print "$k -> $v\n" }
+
+untie %h;