Hi,

aaah ok - that makes sense - not sure why its doing that though =) I ended up using a slight variation of the code now: 
        if (length $link->{LatitudLongitud} > 5) { 
            if (!$seen->{$link->{LatitudLongitud}}) { 
                push @{$records->{$link->{LatitudLongitud}}}, $link->{
+ID};
                $seen->{$link->{LatitudLongitud}} = 1; # make sure we 
+set this, so we know its been seen already!
            } else {
                push @{$records->{$link->{LatitudLongitud}}}, $link->{
+ID};
            }
        }

        if (length $link->{LatitudLongitud02} > 5 && $link->{LatitudLo
+ngitud} ne $link->{LatitudLongitud02}) { 
            if (!$seen->{$link->{LatitudLongitud02}}) {         
                push @{$records->{$link->{LatitudLongitud02}}}, $link-
+>{ID};
                $seen->{$link->{LatitudLongitud02}} = 1; # make sure w
+e set this, so we know its been seen already!
            } else {
                push @{$records->{$link->{LatitudLongitud02}}}, $link-
+>{ID};
            }        
        }

        $links->{$link->{ID}} = $link;

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..and then after that, looping through it with this: 
  map {   
        
        my ($lat,$long) = split ",", $_;
        
        my @links = @{$records->{$_}};
        
        my $box_contents;
        my @html_contents;
        my $num_links = $#links+1;
        foreach (@links) {
            my $link = $links->{$_};
            
                        # do stuff here 
                }

   } keys %$seen;

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..and that works like a charm :)

Thanks again for the reply - its always good to know the reason behind these things, just in case I come across the same thing again in the future :)

Cheers

Andy

In reply to Re^2: Weirdness with pushing records, and values saved by ultranerds
in thread Weirdness with pushing records, and values saved by ultranerds

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