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