I have a program that does something similar. Basically, I have a list of movies in a text file. I read each line and then parse the information into an anonymous hash. Then I stick a reference to the hash in a list. With the list, I can access every bit of data about every movie.

Here's a simplified snippet of the read and store code. 

   my @movieList = ();
   my $index = 0;
   open(DATA, $dataFile);
   while (<DATA>) {
      chomp;
      if (/^\s+$/) { next; } # skip blank lines in datafile

      my @data = split("\t");
      my $title = &getString( shift(@data) );
      my $year = &getString( shift(@data) );

      my $movieRec = {
         'index' => $index,
         'title' => $title,
         'year' => $year,
      };
      push(@movieList, $movieRec);
      $index++;
   } # while
   close(DATA);

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I hope this gives you some ideas.

In reply to Re: text file database - Objects? by svsingh
in thread text file database - Objects? by shibby

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