I was looking for a flatfile database module (something that would be platform independent and database independent). I searched through CPAN and didn't find what I was looking for. I was thinking of doing something like this:
Forgive me if this doesn't run as typed. At the moment, I have nothing to test it on.

open DBFILE "< file.dat";
my $cnt = 0;

while (defined(<DBFILE>)) {
  chomp;
  ($rec[$cnt]{'Name'}, $rec[$cnt]{'Age'}, $rec[$cnt]{'Address'},
  $rec[$cnt++]{'Phone'}) = split(0036,$_);# Octal 36 is ASCII RS I am using as a record separator
}
close DBFILE;

That is how I would place my data in memory. The array of hashes seemed to work as I was playing around. My questions are:

If there were say 1000 records, would this array of hashes be a memory hog?

Am I doing this the hard way? I have a talent for that.

Is there a good Module out there for flat file databases?

Yoda

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