If you want to find an entry that contains ONLY the text within %entry, you can do a wildcard search without wildcards.

If the hash table were like this:

item1: 1.2.3.40
item2: 1.2.3.4
item3: 11.2.3.4

and %entry = 1.2.3.4

Then: $hfind(table,%entry,%c,w) would be used to match ONLY item2.

-genius_at_work