I know: /hdel -w <hash table> <item> <data>*
doesn't work. (obvious I know)
However, if you know which items are going to have something* in it, you could put these on a timer/unset mode. ie:
hadd -mu50000 <table> <item> <data>
Now, since these are on a unset timer, they will not save to a file when you /hsave (unless you specify -u).
So if you needed to get rid of the something*, and you put them on a unset timer, you could /hsave -o, then /hdel <hashtable> *, and then /hload the information.
( Instead of using the standard /hadd command in your script, you could write a seperate alias like so:
alias _hadd {
var %table = $1 , %item = $2 , %data = $3-
if (something* iswm %data) { /hadd -mu50000 %table %item %data }
else { /hadd -m %table %item %data }
}
Just use that to add stuff to your hash tables, it'll automatically detect the "something*" and put it in the unset list.
Hope this helps. Good luck.