--- Stas Bekman wrote: > Perl also exposes the hashing function, so you can > pre-hash values My second patch does this. The case where the hash function has to find the length of the key is messy, however. I don't see a clean way to do it without traversing the string twice. ... Ami. ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html