Lynn,
there is more to 'save' than waste of memory - saved is only what can be
retreived. I had to tell this my former bosses every two weeks and I
never felt that I made them understand.;=)
Therefore, you may keep a table with the locations of your data files in
a special file. BTW, this is what a database would do, so my
recommendation is: Use a database. It is not overkill. To hack a
complete (but still poor) database system from scratch in Perl would be overkill.
Alternatively, you may hold the data completely in one file (or still
better in one database) and create the text files in their special
folders only on demand when you need them (for whatever purpose you want
to have them).
Cheers
Stephan
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24105 Kiel
Germany
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