Forums Scripts & Popups Using $hfind

I have a large hash table saved as altnicks.dat. The table associates nicks with addresses and vice versa so I can monitor users as they change nicks.
Assume the following
Now, I want to find out how many nicks contain the string "grass", so I use and the number 22 is returned. Fine so far.

If I then load altnicks.dat into notepad++, and do a word count for "grass", I get 44 as the number of occurrences.
Furthermore, the command returns zero, whereas notepad++ shows that there are 53 occurrences of "summer".

Am I using $hfind correctly, and/or what is a better approach to count the number of specific strings in a hash table?

Thanks.

in a hashtable it's set up like: tablename->itemname->data

$hfind() returns matches for itemnames only
$hfind().data returns matches for data only

I think when you are searching with nopepad++ it's looking at all occurances
for ex:

[hasttablename]
summer!someident@host.com=summer winter fall spring

notepad++ would see the item and data where as $hfind either looks at the data or the itemname

doh! $hfind().data !!
Brain was too tired to read the help file correctly.

Thanks Froggie

You're welcome