On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Harper, Gareth wrote: > I did have another thought about this though, assuming the data is coming > from a database originally (thats probably wrong now), why not use (or > create if it's not already there) an UPDATE_TIMESTAMP on the data used, then > simply use the ID of the data combined with the timestamp to check if the > data has been updated or not.
The data does indeed come from a database, however, it comes from multiple tables. It's a nomalised databas. -- s'' Mark Fowler London.pm Bath.pm http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ';use Term'Cap;$t=Tgetent Term'Cap{};print$t->Tputs(cl);for$w(split/ +/ ){for(0..30){$|=print$t->Tgoto(cm,$_,$y)." $w";select$k,$k,$k,.03}$y+=2}