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where a Perl script gets written to the database, the random junk will
correspond to an area of dynamic memory that happened to be used during
the compilation of the script.

Unless you don't like the possibility of there being part of your Perl
scripts embedded in a database file, this is nothing to worry about.

=head2 How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?

Although B<DB_File> cannot do this directly, there is a module which
can layer transparently over B<DB_File> to accomplish this feat.

Check out the MLDBM module, available on CPAN in the directory
F<modules/by-module/MLDBM>.

=head2 What does "wide character in subroutine entry" mean?

You will usually get this message if you are working with UTF-8 data and
want to read/write it from/to a Berkeley DB database file.

The easist way to deal with this issue is to use the pre-defined "utf8"