well - for example this doesn't help if i don't know the case of the key-string, as i won't be trying all possible permutation of a String sTring stRing strIng STrING with an exists statement ...

Also it doesn't help me, when my hashkey is of type "What_I_am_looking_for Irrelevant_String", then exists also won't help me, as i don't necessarily know what the string Irrelevant_String is.

My Problem isn't that i am not finding the data in the hash, i was primarily confused by the behaviour of each which was caused by my lack of knowledge of the way it behaves.

(Posted it in part, in case sbd else has the same problem, so he can find the answer on the net).

In reply to Re^2: when do i know that the iterator for a hash was reseted by rminner
in thread when do i know that the iterator for a hash was reseted by rminner

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