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Does it help to have a HoHoHoA? That is, use the word (or the token for the word) as a top level key, the initial tag and the second level key and the correct tag as the third level key with the value either the location (if there is just one) or an array of locations (if there may be many).

Of course some sample code and data would be even better than a description don't you think?

True laziness is hard work

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Re^4: non-scalar hash key
by kdejonghe (Novice) on Jun 17, 2009 at 11:54 UTC
    Here's what the current hash looks like (fragment). The 's' value points to a hash of locations. 
    $VAR1 = {
          '0 0 20 0 13 0 0 0 5' => {
                                     's' => {
                                              '0,7' => 1
                                            }
                                   },
          '0 0 18 1 0' => {
                            's' => {
                                     '0,6' => 1
                                   }
                          },
          '2 0 8 0 0 0 2' => {
                               's' => {
                                        '0,4' => 1
                                      }
                             },
          '0 42314 18 1 0' => {
                                's' => {
                                         '0,6' => 1
                                       }
                              },

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