Aha! That's what
tilly had suggested, but without the
my %hash; first, and
I was getting confused when trying to combine the my and assignment in the same statment! Thanks
Fastolfe, I'd not seen that particular usage before :-)
As regards your other reply, currently I'm shifting off the first
element of the array, which tells me what the record type is. I then join
the array with a delimiter for writing out to a flat file, minus the transaction type
(or rather the transaction type get's built into the key I insert with the join).
Pete