Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Basically i want to write a utility which will cater to multiple scripts with its threshold values.

So my utility will have add/update/fetch switches, add taking use input for the various threshold values and then pushing it in a separate file (say my_hashes.pl) in form of a hash (thats what I was planning to use till now).

Fetch and update will be take argument and look for the same named hash in the file previously created (my_hashes.pl) , and display/use or update them.