This looks like what I was trying to do, but here are a couple problems:

1. I want to be able to keep the items in order.
2. I'm dealing with a relatively large file (10,000+ lines), thus it takes an eternity to load everything into memory.
3. Sometimes I won't know what will be in the place where I inserted USED, MNH, and PB.

I was working on this project to learn more about hashes and all of you guy's code helped me out tremendously in learning how to use them. I've still got a lot to learn, but you've helped give me a good start.

Question: is there a way I could make a script like this that would be portable, yet much quicker?

Stamp_Guy