On 8/3/07, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > Whnever you use a composite key, you have the possibility of a collision. snip
Okay, I will concede that, but there is generally a character that is safe (usually the character the line was split on). In this case $hash{join ',', @cdr[2,3,6,7]} = $line; is safe due to the fact that @cdr was created using split /,/, so I would recommend that over a multidimensional hash. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/