in reply to Dynamic Lookups on SDBM Files

You might try using DBD::DBM which comes in recent versions of DBI. It should work directly on your SDBM files (or other DBM files with or without MLDBM) and provide DBI/SQL access to them for greater ease of maintainability. If you go this route, I'd be interested to hear how it benchmarks against other methods you've tried.

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Re^2: Dynamic Lookups on SDBM Files
by periapt (Hermit) on Aug 04, 2004 at 12:24 UTC
    Hmmm, this might be helpful for those after the fact queries on the lookup hashes. I'll take a look at it. Thanks.

    PJ
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