how about something like...

use strict;
use warnings;
$|++;

my $person = shift @ARGV or die "Usage: $0 <personid>\n";

my %parent_of;
my %children_of;

while (my ($child, $parent) = split /\s/, <DATA>) {
    $parent_of{$child} = $parent;
    push @{$children_of{$parent}}, $child;
}

my @fathers;
for (my $lookat = $person; exists $parent_of{$lookat}; $lookat = $pare
+nt_of{$lookat}) {
    push @fathers, $parent_of{$lookat};
}

my @sons = @{$children_of{$person}};

print "fathers of $person: @fathers$/";
print "sons of $person: @sons$/";

__DATA__
1045316394 1045316144
1045316407 1045316394
1045316419 1045316407
1045316438 1045316419
1045316469 1045316394
1045316492 1045316407
1045316505 1045316492

[download]
$ perl test.pl 1045316419
fathers of 1045316419: 1045316407 1045316394 1045316144
sons of 1045316419: 1045316438

this had bettern not be homework!

In reply to Re: Database problem. by zengargoyle
in thread Correction to Database problem by nasa

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