Hi list memebers. I'm new here and I'm interested in learning about Perl. I've managed to get some programs together but have a lot to learn.
May I put a question to the experts? Suppose I have a text file that has a whopping amount of lines (20-50,000). What would be the best way to condense or index this with Perl so I could query it and get a yes/no on it as fast as possible with minimum overhead? I could maintain a database to do it, but for one line entries this would probably be overkill. It's easy to swap a text file to update it and manage the list concerned. What would be the best approach? Warm regards Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
