If waisting your time means to read the actual question, then what exactly was the point of posting on this? Obviously I've chosen the path to use a hash, and I have my reasons. If for some reason I wanted to use arrays, that's what I would have done. But the question was directed towards how to fix THIS problem, not rewriting it as an array.

Why not use an array? Because this hash (if you read the question again) is for an admin file which removes data, and I'm using this tied hash to my database. So is my design absurd? Maybe, but it's the path I've chosen and since I'm connecting to a database, this is the only means I have to do this.

Before you spit ot "I'm not going to waste my time" blah blah blah, maybe you should actually read what the question is asking before you pass judgement.

In reply to Re: Re: rebuilding hashes by coldfingertips
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