That broke the chameau's back - I'm starting a PM snips file! "Subroutines, Snips, Clues and just plain Wow"

I've seen the technique "initialize entire range of values for hash and then selectively replace special instances as needed" before, but this beautifully emphasizes the subject data, and reads naturally in order of increasing 'specialization'.   Oh, yeah, and the code's useful, too.   (ğ)