First: thank you.

Second: HoHoA? That's one Ho short of a Santa-A (Canadian?). Seriously though, I have yet to venture into hash-land, nevermind hashes of arrays, and certainly not Santas who are not playing with a full deck of Ho's.

Since it's obviously time for me to get into hashes, do you have any examples like this one where data from a file is pushed to the hash, as opposed to the user defining it? Unfortunately nobody at my work cares that I can create a hash with different fruits and vegetables from my mind.

And third, thanks for saying TCP because it made me realize I don't need to look for UDP connections. I will work that into the regex.

Great learning experience, thanks again to everyone who replied.

In reply to Re^2: Define string on current line, then match other lines with string below the line by Mashed Potato
in thread Define string on current line, then match other lines with string below the line by Mashed Potato

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