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in reply to hash confusion

if ( $hash{$1} eq $2 )
{
 print "$1 is in hash with a value of $2\n";
}

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That's if the values of the hash are strings. Possibly you'd have to use == instead of eq if they are numbers. I'm not 100% sure based on your post, but it looks like the hash key and values have ":" and "-" in them.

- j

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