And if you wind up with 10 gig of data in a hash? eg, I think, provided a reasonably vague answer to a reasonably vague question. Part of coming up with acceptable solutions is developing good specifications. I find that if I define the question clearly enough, I often don't need to ask anyone else for the answer.

Hope that wasn't too painful :)

Cheers,
Ovid

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