Re (tilly) 1: Merging Files Conundrum: A Better Explanation(?)

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This is a problem that simply screams for a relational database. (Certainly if your data sets grow performance will become a problem without one.) Please look at DBI.

If you really want to leave your data in flat-files, you can always use DBI with DBD::CSV. (And switch to a real database later if need be.)

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RE: Re (tilly) 1: Merging Files Conundrum: A Better Explanation(?) by Limo (Scribe) on Sep 15, 2000 at 18:55 UTC
From reading up on DBI and DBI::CSV, this would be my soulution, EXCEPT, our brain-dead Solaris box has a broken compiler! And getting this box's owner to fix it is going to be near impossible! Thanks for the info.	[reply]

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