note pajout You can preprocess it using, for instance, DB_File module. See DB_HASH chapter of<br> http://perldoc.perl.org/DB_File.html#A-Simple-Example<br> -> you can have huge hash which is stored in the file but it behaves relatively transparently in Perl code, like as normal hash.<p> Or you can use one table in some SQL database, having just two columns, 'key' and 'val', with index on 'key'. 886929 886929