Could you tie it to a file? I seem to remember someone mentioning this approach either on the mod_perl or this list. I'm not sure if there are modules to implement this approach, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone written one. CPAN is always your friend. :-)
Drew At 09:31 PM 9/29/2002 -0400, Ranga Nathan wrote: >Are there any special techniques for handling large hashes. When >building an XML tree as a Perl data structure, at times more and more >memory is being consumed eventually runs out of memory. Other than >partitioning the problem is there any known technique? > >The problem occurs when we use Any2XML.pm that uses Ximple.pm which >builds XML tree as an array of hashes recursively. While this works well >for most documents, when parsing flat files containing thousands of >records, this breaks down. -- Drew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | 17 Thacher St, Apt 1 http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | Boston, MA 02113 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Ph (617) 523-5332 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

