Hi,
this is just an Idea and maybe it is the worst idea for what you want. But I
'll go for it :-)
What I would do-- I have an Index(sorted)
Then the main file with the 20,000 records would be a DBM just a tied or
dynamic or a hashed text.
using the module
SDBM_File, POSIX modules
And the index would be the address or Key of the record in a main file.
like in the index sorted by integers
you would have
YOUR INTEGER | ADDRESS or key
where Address would be the row in the main file.
when you create the 'tied' file, you can have a counter.
foreach $line(@data){
$c++;
($int, $othervalue)=split(/\|/,$line);
$dbm{$c}= $line;
push @tobegotoindex, "$int|$c\n";
}
just an idea.
That is what I used to do with Visual Basic.
awards
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