Re: [MacPerl] Search::Dict?

[Roger Espinosa <roger@umich.edu>]

Richard Gordon writes on 2/12/99 (around 1:40 PM -0500):
> On 2/12/1999 at 10:33, rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J. Kimball) wrote:
>
> > 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}.
>
> I was going by an example in the Perl Cookbook. I think I understand this
>now.
> Thanks.

To hopefully clarify this idea -- DB_File can *also* be used to tie an
array to a regular textfile, which is where the line numbers come in. You
can then read (or alter) the file using a regular array, e.g. $foo[5].

Roger




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