Greetings all,

I'm currently working on a project which makes use of a proprietary configuration file. I have that config file read into perl via the Parse::RecDecent module; that data structure consists of a 'hash of hashes'.

The part i'm having problems with is, how do I search the tree for a specific string? Some people I work with suggested I use a binary tree search algorythm, however I dont want to search the entire tree from end to end. The data I want should be three or four levels down into the structure.

I dont necessarily want to hard-code the path to the data I want, because the structure may change later on. If I have to, i will, but I kinda think it would be a cop out if i did...

Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks

-=-GardRail-=-

In reply to searching complex data structures by Anonymous Monk

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