hello,
I want to ask a theoretic question.

my data is(from a radius file)- one record shown:
beurs3-ISDN    Password = "Beurs6.65ISDN"
        User-Service = Framed-User,
        Framed-Protocol = MPP,
        Framed-Address = 212.233.6.65,
        Framed-Netmask = 255.255.255.224,
        Ascend-Route-IP = Route-IP-Yes,
        Ascend-Metric = 3

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This is read from a flat file. I can parse it but i want to do it nice I thought of putting the username in a array and put the rest in a hash(I think this is a array of hashes).
But I need a feature so you can look-up on username(no prob in the array) and then fetch the rest of the hash. But I also need to give the possibility to look-up on ip. Is this possibly? Can someone guide me or give his views on the best method?

I'm still hacking on it, I will post later what I've found.

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