Hi,

I just want to record a newbie impression here, that I'm finding things awkward when storing text as an array and trying to couple textlines with linenumbers ...

Am I doinng things too cumbersomely? I mean I do a "while (<>)" and put all the lines into an array - as any newbie would.

But in order not to lose the logical order of the text, I had to use a hash instead so I could (permanently) link each line with a linenumber.

The hash seem to have a crazy internal order for the lines, but I found out how to sort numerically on the key. The upshot is, I actually thought this would be a simple task, and my code is a little unwieldy already.

Should I really be using some DB module for this now? Especially as I want to start regexing the hash now, and making it behave like egrep (i'm on perl for win) and churning out a series of data as to where matches occur and so forth ....

In reply to line numbers and line content into hash by stabu

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