Hi,

My script is a bit complicated so I will try to use an example that has the concept of what I'm trying to do.

I have a hash that will be containing duplicate keys but different values.

What I need to do is to print the following format in HTML so it works properly with my DHTML Ticker. For the DHTML Ticker to work the format goes as: 
<div id="tick1" class="dropcontent" subject="8-15-2006">
Jerry
John
Jen
</div>
<div id="tick2" class="dropcontent" subject="8-16-2006">
Keith
Ken
Kendra
</div>

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So I have a hash that stores a date value as its key and its value as the winners that day.

So if Jerry, John, and Jen won on 8-15-2006 then the hash will be like this: 
%events=("8-15-2006"=>"Jerry","8-15-2006"=>"John","8-15-2006"=>"Jen");

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But on a typical day, we would like the "ticker" to display each day of the week. So the hash will multiple days with multiple winners, not just "8-15-2006"

I have enough to populate the hash, but I don't know where to go to print out the HTML Format I need. As you notice, each div block has its subject as the "8-15-2006". Since 8-15-2006 shows up three times in the %events hash, then I need a way where it will only print it once but at the same time also print all 3 values for each winners name. Notice also how also the div id name changes from tick 1, tick 2 etc. Right now I just don't know enough to start accomplish.

Any help or referrences here would be awesome...thanks for taking your time to read this.

Bobby

In reply to Filtering out a hash to display proper HTML by Anonymous Monk

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