Remember - you're building a data structure against which to compare items. So, memory is not a major issue for this tool. Thus, translation of [0,5000) is very simple - my %x; $x{$_} = 1 for 0 .. 5000-1;
Frankly, I think you haven't fully described what it is you're trying to build. You describe an auditing tool for 250M transactions/day in your original post, but now you want to have the auditing criteria be input via a webform. Those aren't very compatible. Auditing tools really should be auditing against the specifications. If your specifications are determined by inputs into a webform, then nothing can help you.
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In reply to Re^3: Set Notation Handling
by dragonchild
in thread Set Notation Handling
by tradez
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