If your system's memory is large enough to hold the smaller dataset,
then as others have said, working with hashes is the way to go:
read all of small dataset into hash
while another record in large dataset
if key for record exists in hash
delete hash{key}
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There is a lot of noise on this channel about perl
- Original Message -
From: Hasanuddin Tamir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Nathaniel Mallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: Substring retrieval
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Nathaniel Mallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote,
>
> > The Index functio
