On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:46:04AM -0700, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:27:20AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > Since Unicode.txt is not sorted in dictionary order, > > > e.g > > > FFFD;REPLACEMENT CHARACTER;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; > > > 10300;OLD ITALIC LETTER A;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;; > > > > > > then, a sorted file is necessary, isn't it? > > > > I don't know enough to answer this question. Others will, but many people > > are at the perl conference at the moment so they may not be in a position > > to read e-mail or reply this week. > > I don't *think* it's necessary, given that we're going to be putting it > all in a hash anyway. No, we are not putting it all in a hash, not in the sense of cacheing/accumulating the charinfo() results. I now extended Search::Dict so that it can do a little bit more with its input stream, and that made having a sorted file unnecessary. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack CohenThread Previous | Thread Next