Re: [MacPerl] Parsing Script

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 18.10 98.01.14, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>The second problem is the size of the database.  300mb
>won't all fit into memory so you will have to determine a
>different way to sort the information.  My suggestion is to
>break the file up into X number of smaller files which you
>can pull into memory individually.  These files should be

This is exactly why we have a File::Sort module, now on my site and on CPAN.

Although, I have to say that I would FTP the file to a Unix box and sort it
there.

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