On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Steve Tolkin<[email protected]> wrote: > I want to do a binary search on a list of strings in memory. Basically I > want the bsearch functionality, also implemented in Search::Dict. > Unfortunately that is documented to only work for a list of strings in a > file. http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.9/lib/Search/Dict.pm says > in part: <q> > > NAME > > Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file > > > > SYNOPSIS > > use Search::Dict; > > look *FILEHANDLE, $key, $dict, $fold; > > > > use Search::Dict; > > look *FILEHANDLE, $params; > > > > DESCRIPTION > > Sets file position in FILEHANDLE to be first line greater than or equal > (stringwise) to $key. Returns the new file position, or -1 if an error > occurs.</q> > > > > Is there any way to have a FILEHANDLE point to an array in memory? > > If so, is anything special needed to use the above module? [...]
open(my $fh, "<", \$scalar) will open a filehandle $fh to a "file" which is whatever is in $scalar. Pure Perl code, such as Search::Dict, should treat this as a regular filehandle. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
