I'm not sure how to ask my question, because I myself am confused as to how to do it. But I'll give my best shot.

I suppose what I am looking for is a multidemensional array, here's what I've got cooking....

I have an array, which references different "categories" if you will. For example, I have three categories...
$cat[0] = "birds";
$cat[1] = "turds";
$cat[2] = "flirds";

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Each of these categories have individual listings, which are stored in a file $cat[$i].dat... there may be multipule lines in this file, for each individual listing.

I want to create one array, or multidementional array which holds all listings from all categories. How can I achieve that?

Thanks monks.

In reply to confusing question, involving multidemensional arrays by Anonymous Monk

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