Can I use a filehandle instead of a filename for creating DBM files?

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Published on 2010-06-12T18:36:01Z Indexed on 2010/06/12 18:42 UTC
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I'm using MLDBM to persist some Perl data structures and I'm wondering if there's an alternative to the following:

tie %hash, "MLDBM", $dbm_file, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0644;

Primarily, I'd like to be able to use STDOUT, rather than a known file name. This could then be redirected to a file on the shell-side.

I've been searching with keywords like "tie", "DBM" and "filehandle", but the hits tend to talk about tying filehandles to things, as opposed to things to filehandles.

Any suggestions?

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