Hej All,

Interesting one for you. I have a CSV file which I need to search through. I dont want to use DBI::CSV because its a hassle, just want to work with filehandles and arrays.

Here comes the problem, the array would be 6000x7 in dimension!

What I need to do is read each line into an array and then perform a soundex on a couple of fields and put those that match into another array.

Gut feeling tells me that going DBI::CSV would be inefficient because of the overheads of creating connections and record sets and besides, just reading and splitting the file at the moment is only taking a few seconds.

Would I be better reading the input file line by line and putting those that match into a second array?

- Jed

In reply to Best way to handle/search CSV file in Perl? by Speedfreak

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