Forums Scripts & Popups Help With Search Hash Tables

ok hash table kinda looks like this

table packs hash info
Latest Pack-1 [700M] FILE WITH COLORS

and %pack = FILE WITHOUT COLORS
i want to use $strip() so when it searches the hash table it ignores the colors ect

im using while to loop thru the hash table it is working fine tho but it gets used alot and its using alot of cpu