in reply to Re: creating hashes
in thread creating hashes

My suggestion indeed is to "use a hash of anon arrays...where 'bob', 'sally', 'sue' are entries 0, 1, 2 of teh anon array" and of course the anon array is the value linked to each key in your hash.

You therefore would need to de-reference the anon-array reference to get at the names. How you put these in your combo box is a bit beyond me. Personally, I would use two combo-boxes, one with your hash keys which, once you pick one entry, dynamically loads the names related to that key and puts them in the second combo-box. A clear case for an AJAX-empowered web-page if you ask me ;-)

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