dbmopen syntax error

[shao]

Hi, I am a newbie to perl programing.
I am trying to map a hash out into disk file.
This is the sample I tried:
dbmopen(%last_good,"lastdb",0666) || die "Failed dbmopen: $!";
$last_good($name) = time;
dbmclose(%last_good);

But I keep getting this error:
syntax error at lesson4.pl line 21, near "$last_good("

Can anyone please tell me what I did wrong?

 

[usenet]

$last_good($name) = time;

That's a hash. The syntax is to use curly's (not parens), ie:
$last_good{$name}

That might be in the perldoc's somewhere...