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swampyankee
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I think it would be helpful if you gave us a little context -- checking the value of it's contents seems like just one piece of a multi-step process.</p>
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I also tend to get suspicious when I see lots of things with names like "stepxxx" where "xxx" seems to be counting. When one has something like that, I, for one, wonder why isn't an array being used: Why doesn't your structure look like </p>
$hash{opt}{step} = [001, 002, .....999];
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<p>This way, you could easily pull out element xxx and test its value.</P>
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