note pmonk4ever planetscape,<p> Nice 'Not Exactly a Hash Tutorial' article...good job, hashes are certainly clearer now. It helps to cut and paste your examples and run them.<p> The following links I noticed were broken:<p> Hashes, as explained in PerlGuts Illustrated, by Gisle Aas<p> Perl.com: How Hashes Really Work, by Abhijit Menon-Sen<p> Effective Perl: Intermediate and Advanced Topics contains a wealth of information, not limited to hashes, but also including several pages on Joseph N. Hall's PErl Graphical Structures (PEGS) <P> I received a 404 error for them...<p> Other than that I appreciated all the examples you provided and the links that did work, I downloaded the documents...never know when they will disappear...<p> Thanks again! :) <p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-637526"> [pmonk4ever]<p> "No trees were harmed in the creation of this node. However, a rather large number of electrons were somewhat inconvenienced."<p> </div></div> 471590 471590