note Adam I'm always forgeting the way to get Data::Dumper to print a hash and put the name of the hash in-place of the "$VAR". So this is as good a place as any to stick it where I can find it quickly, and other people can see an example usage. <code> use strict; use Data::Dumper; my %hash = ( 'some' => 'stuff' ); print Data::Dumper->Dump([\%hash], ["hashname"]), $/; </code> 31714 31714