in reply to Re^4: a large text file into hash
in thread Reaped: a large text file into hash

As I said, BerkeleyDB is the most recommended solution for disk-based hashes.

Alternatives include MLDBM, SQLite_file, DBM::Deep etc.

Or you could use an RDBMS (Postgres/MySQL/other). Perhaps via Tie::DBI.

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