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As soon as you have found where one record stops and the next record starts, it becomes trivially easy to build a Array of Hashes or a Hash of Hashes to hold your data.

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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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