Re: edit a file cause unexpected execution

You clearly haven't come across file indexing before! Using seek() to locate a

record is incomparably faster than reading through it until you find the data
you need.

Using the file offset as a record ID is a good idea because

- It is bound to be unique
- it is easy to verify that the data hasn't been corrupted

The separate index.noun file is there to make it quick to find all records in
data.noun that apply to a given word.

Editing the database is a non-trivial task. You've found the documentation
already, so take a look at that and write something that allows you to move data
around while keeping the record IDs valid.


Thank you that helps me understand a lot, I have stare at the documentation quite long but I still can't find the way of editing the data without affecting the byte offset. I would need to customize the module WordNet::QueryData according the the new things that I added too.

Thank you,


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