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Data is entered via a web page and the votes get written to a file, looking like 
01,01,02,03,23/03/2011 12:27:41
01,03,05,08,23/03/2011 12:37:41
01,02,05,07,23/03/2011 12:47:41
01,03,02,03,23/03/2011 12:57:41
01,01,06,08,23/03/2011 12:67:41
02,01,02,03,24/03/2011 12:27:41
02,03,05,08,24/03/2011 12:37:41
02,02,05,07,24/03/2011 12:47:41
02,03,02,03,24/03/2011 12:57:41
02,01,06,08,24/03/2011 12:67:41

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where:
the first value is the game, the second, third and fourth values are the players that have been voted for. The last is date and time.

So in the above example, 5 votes have been made for both games one and two.

In the first record
01,01,02,03,23/03/2011 12:27:41
For game 01, player 01 would get 3 points, player 02 would get 2 points and player 03 would get 1 point
. I had tried to make a smaller version of the code (using only three tables rather than 25) but...still left me completely non plussed!

In reply to Re^2: Aaaarghh...hashes of hashes..again :( by viffer
in thread Aaaarghh...hashes of hashes..again :( by viffer

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