Please consider AgentM's suggestion again -- DBD::CSV (and also, DBD::RAM) allow you to treat CSV files (and other formats) as a database -- and later when you do move to a real database you'll be able to move the scripts with very little effort as well.

Well, we don't have those modules installed, otherwise I'd be happy to use them :). So let me ask this, how do I create an array of dynamically named arrays?

I'll assume:

@array = @array1,@array2,@array3, etc. Each array in @array is dynamically named.


Here's the code I've got to get started. It's not much, but hey...we got to start somewhere with it.


open(FILE, "data.txt");          #opens data.txt in read-mode
while(<FILE>){                   #reads line by line from FILE which i
+s the filehandle for data.txt
   chomp;
#   print join(':', split(/,/,$_));
#   print "\n";
  @data = split(/,/,$_);
}

close FILE;                      #close the file.
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So, am I being lame or what?

Sure, but the problem is none of our servers have those modules installed, otherwise it'd be a great idea. :(