NAME

DBM::Deep::Cookbook

DESCRIPTION

This is the Cookbook for "" in DBM::Deep. It contains useful tips and tricks, plus some examples of how to do common tasks.

RECIPES

UTF8 data

When you're using UTF8 data, you may run into the "Wide character in print" warning. To fix that in 5.8+, do the following:

  my $db = DBM::Deep->new( ... );
  binmode $db->_fh, ":utf8";

In 5.6, you will have to do the following:

  my $db = DBM::Deep->new( ... );
  $db->set_filter( 'store_value' => sub { pack "U0C*", unpack "C*", $_[0] } );
  $db->set_filter( 'retrieve_value' => sub { pack "C*", unpack "U0C*", $_[0] } );

In a future version, you will be able to specify utf8 =gt 1 and "" in DBM::Deep will do these things for you.