Zhou, Bo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can someone educate me a bit on hash array? Is hash array an in-memory data
> structure? Is hash array always loaded into memory? Is it not a good idea to
> load a large table (~10mil rows) into a hash array? I am running PERL5 on a
> SUN 6500 box.


yes, no, no.

Check out Tie::Hash which will allow you to use a disk DBM file as hash.

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