Search::Dict

Search::Dict

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION

NAME

Search::Dict - look - search for key in dictionary file

SYNOPSIS

use Search::Dict;
look *FILEHANDLE, $key, $dict, $fold;

use Search::Dict;
look *FILEHANDLE, $params;

DESCRIPTION

Sets file position in FILEHANDLE to be first line greater than or equal (stringwise) to $key. Returns the new file position, or -1 if an error occurs.

The flags specify dictionary order and case folding:

If $dict is true, search by dictionary order (ignore anything but word characters and whitespace). The default is honour all characters.

If $fold is true, ignore case. The default is to honour case.

If there are only three arguments and the third argument is a h