On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 02:32:09 +0200 (MEST), Louis Pouzin wrote:
>I have a data base of IP/domain names that I maintain as plain text files. The size
>is only a few hundred K octets.
>
>I use a hash (of of hashes) for various searches. Building the whole hash takes a few
>seconds.
>
>As the ratio of updates/searches is in the order of 1/15, I'd like to restore the
>whole hash from a file, in view of shortening response time when doing searches.
>
>Is there some routine/package such as "save/restore %H,FileHandle" ?
Depending on how much data you actually want to look at and/or change,
you might actually be wanting a tied hash, the thing perl4 had dbmopen()
for. Now, you could think of using some DBM package (SDBM, NDBM, etc),
BerkeleyDB, or DBM::Deep. I'm not sure what exactly is available for
MacPerl, but I think that is the route you should try out.
--
Bart.
