Beg your pardon? Hashes support just one type of lookup. Exact match. Please show me how do you store data in hashes so that you can efficiently select all rows in which the value of a certain column is between X and Y? Or those in which a different column contains data that start by ABCDEF? Also keep in mind that in a hash you only have one key ... most likely when working with tabular data you do not always search by the same column, even if you did always ask for an exact match.

I think he meant "external" to Perl ... some piece of software completely unrelated to Perl that has to be installed. So DBI+DBD::SQLite does fit the bill.

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In reply to Re^4: perl database question by Jenda
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