Re: SDBM or Perl hash key length restrictions

From the BUGS section of the SDBM docs:

There are a number of limits on the size of the data that you can store in the SDBM file. The most important is that the length of a key, plus the length of its associated value, may not exceed 1008 bytes.

My suggestion would be to use DB_File or BerkeleyDB, both of which are based on the Berkeley DB Library, and should be free of arbitrary limits.

Another option would be GDBM_File, which uses the GNU Dbm library.

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Re: Re: SDBM or Perl hash key length restrictions by larryk (Friar) on Mar 27, 2001 at 13:53 UTC
Thank you. That is exactly what I wanted to know.	[reply]
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