Re: Pick any key from a very large hash

Can't you simply exit from the each when you are done, and maybe include it in an external loop of some kind?

Or have I completely missed the point?

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Re^2: Pick any key from a very large hash by FloydATC (Deacon) on Jul 11, 2009 at 22:24 UTC
I tried using `each` without looping at all, which caused weird results when arbitrary pairs were added or deleted between each `each`. `exit` would be taking things a bit too far, perhaps you meant `last`? :-) Alternatively, if you mean use a separate process, this would defeat the DB_File built-in cache and generally kill performance. OR maybe I'm the one missing the point... -- Time flies when you don't know what you're doing	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Pick any key from a very large hash
by FloydATC (Deacon) on Jul 11, 2009 at 22:24 UTC

each

exit would be taking things a bit too far, perhaps you meant last? :-) Alternatively, if you mean use a separate process, this would defeat the DB_File built-in cache and generally kill performance.

OR maybe I'm the one missing the point...

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