I am having a mental block on how to handle data I have in a text file which contains partial data of 3 dimension coordinates of mulitple points.

an example for a triangle on the xy plane:
---------------------
sect_name  line-aa
sect_plane xy
sect_num   4

1 1
2 1
2 2
1 2
--------------------

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The sect_plane value identifies how the points are orderd, in this case fist x then y. I am trying to put the data into a data structure  [seq][x][y][z] not sure if this is a good use for HASH or not.

I use a hash list to store the header information, not sure how to store the point coordinates, for each point I need its "sequence number, x, y, z" values in that order./p>

Can a hash be used for more than just one key/value pair?

Any ideas? Sal

In reply to Managing structured data by salp

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