note biohisham You guessed it right, it is a hash within an array within a hash and so on, such constructs are collectively termed data structures in Perl, read [http://perldoc.perl.org/perldsc.html|perldsc], [http://perldoc.perl.org/perlref.html|perlref] and the quick tutorial [Arrays and hashes only with references]. <p>Knowing and mastering these structures will be very handy when you wanna do text processing and data munging tasks..</p> <p></p><p></p><p></p> <code> </code> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-769448"> <hr> Excellence is an Endeavor of Persistence. A Year-Old Monk :D . </div></div> 884170 884170