I thought I mentioned I was looking for AWTDI. On a personal note, I enjoy hashes over arrays. I find it more intuitive to say $hash{10} to get the tenth line, than $array[9]. I also like being able to 'delete $hash{10}' and actually have my hash have 1 less key. And, I would have to benchmark this, but since I was just looking for AWTDI, I don't care enough to, but depending on the size of the file, the hash lookups should be faster.

PS: Before someone says that you can delete an array element.. yes, you can. But all it does it put that element back to an uninitialized state, it doesn't really delete the element. If you have an array with 10 elements, and you delete one, you still have 10 elements.

Cheers,
KM

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