On Apr 12, Larry Rosler said: >I don't know what you mean by scalability in this case. Here's one way >to make it stable: I meant it only works for the specific data set I discussed in the email. I was looking for ideas on generic sift()ers. -- MIDN 4/C PINYAN, NROTCURPI, US Naval Reserve japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ http://pinyaj.stu.rpi.edu/ PerlMonth - An Online Perl Magazine http://www.perlmonth.com/ The Perl Archive - Articles, Forums, etc. http://www.perlarchive.com/ ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe