Re^2: Fast seeking in a large array of hashes to generate a report.

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Correct, but this only works for the "eq" operator, not for a regexp (i tried).
update i'll try it, i did not know about Tie::Hash::Regex. i'll let you know the result.

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Re^3: Fast seeking in a large array of hashes to generate a report. by robartes (Priest) on Jun 23, 2005 at 09:09 UTC
Have you looked at Tie::Hash::Regex -- that allows you to look for hash keys with a regular expression. I have no idea as to the performance impact of this though, so you'll have to benchmark it. CU Robartes-	[reply]

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