Re: [MacPerl] Search::Dict?

[rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J. Kimball)]

Richard Gordon wrote:
> 
> After changing to *F, it's still not working right, but now it's
> returning line 0 instead of 701, so I guess we're making "progress?"
> Perhaps I'm just not thinking about this whole thing correctly- given
> that all I want to do is extract a given line of text from a file based
> on a key and print the key and the value, would I be better off just
> using a normal hash? I guess what I am trying to ask if DB_File expects
> you to tell it what line number you want, what's the most efficient way
> to figure out which line that is and (this is where I'm getting confused)
> if you have to read the file using another method anyway in order to get
> that line number, what is the point of using DB_File to extract the line?

Where did you get the idea that you need the line number anyway?  DB_File
is just a way of tying a hash to a file.  You get values out a tied hash
the same way you get them out of a regular hash: $foo{key}.

Ronald

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