You could just slurp up the whole file into a string and then do 
my %lookupTable = eval $userLookup_dat_contents;

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That's got security issues if you can't trust the file (if someone hostile could overwrite it between passes, for example), but if you set your umask correctly, that seems unlikely.

Of course, if you've only got one "2nd program" and one "1st program", it doesn't make much sense to have them separated like this - just encapsulate your .csv parsing logic into a module, and use it in your 2nd script, ditching the first script.

This kind of separation would only make sense if you're going to be parsing data from a lot of different input formats, and using the same "2nd pass" to analyze it, I think.


Mike

In reply to Re: Use of Hash For Table Lookup by RMGir
in thread Use of Hash For Table Lookup by country1

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