in reply to Need to process a tab delimted file *FAST*

if you are sure that your line is in the form tstamp\tkey1=val1\tkey2=val2... 
my ($tstamp, %hash) = split /[\t=]/, $line;

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Re: Re: Need to process a tab delimted file *FAST*
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 03, 2004 at 06:51 UTC
    Alternatively, 
    my ($tstamp, %hash) = $line =~ /([^\t=]*)/g

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