The Perl core module for it isn't bad, it's one line to tie a hash to a DB file and then you can use it as normal. The main flags are to determine if it's RO/RW

The Perl core module for it isn't bad, it's one line to tie a hash to a DB file and then you can use it as normal. The main flags are to determine if it's RO/RW and whether to create the file if it doesn't exist.