I appreciate all the help guys! However, I think I should clarify some...

First, I made a typo in my first post. Each record in the file actually looks like this:
ID      NAME      PLK      NUM1      NUM2
daamaya:Daniel R. Amaya,PLK,0000056789,ED97865:10:25:blah:blah

Now, I need every field of that somehow loaded into memory. Then I want to use the $id and $name fields to search through my CSV file. If $name is found (e.g. Daniel Amaya), then I want to print the PLK,num1,num2 from the CVS file to the screen (or a file). I just figure that is a faster way to use one file's fields to search another. I was trying to do it by opening file line-by-line and then searching CSV, but it was super slow.

In reply to Re^2: Loading file into memory by walkingthecow
in thread Loading file into memory by walkingthecow

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