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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Reading multiple DBM files
Message-ID: <1990Jun7.151300.14429@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 7 Jun 90 15:13:00 GMT
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I'm considering an application in which I have to read an arbitrary
number of DBM files.  I'd like to keep them all open at the same time
as associative arrays.  This leaves the little problem of associating
array names with all of them, and of referencing an infinite number of
array names.  I can do this with 'eval', I suppose, but it sounds
slow.  Does anybody have any better idea?

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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