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[MacPerl] Re: Index file for full text search [Was: DBM Quality Question (Newbie)]

At 00.21 -0400 1998.07.04, Peter Hartmann wrote:
>ĄThe alpha-ordered text file grew to more than three times the size of the
>original file, i.e. 26MB.

Why is this necessarily a problem?  First, of course, you should remove
common words.  But regardless, Search::Dict should be able to find a given
word very quickly, even in such a large file, by doing a binary search.
Well, opening the 26MB file might take some time, but finding a term in the
file should be very fast.

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