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You can use a tied hash for it. DB_File is an example module implementing that (or you can use the Berkeley DB).
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Re: Re: Very large text file - simple indexing
by diotalevi (Canon) on Apr 09, 2003 at 20:43 UTC

    BerkeleyDB is even nicer once you move into non-trivial amounts of data (I call that hundreds of megs). If you need an ordered database see BerkeleyDB::Hash.