[H-GEN] Processing large text files in perl

[Christopher Biggs]

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Michael Anthon <michael at anthon.net> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> My real question is how I should go about this if I were to rewrite it in
> perl.  My first thought was to have mysql/postgresql installed on the
> machine that will be running the process (to avoid network traffic) and use
> perl DBI but I don't know if that is the "best" way to do it.  Is there some
> other simple and fast DB system I could use instead?

If you do need an RDBMS, then it doesn't /get/ much simpler than Perl,
DBI and mysql (maybe excepting msql, which is optimized for simple
operations on fairly uncomplicated tables).

--cjb


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