just a snippet that allows you to view contents of a hash table you either have loaded or not, differnet switches available with this that allows you to assign whether to make/load table or save/free as well. read the info included with code below to see more details on usage

;Instructions

;if the hash table is needed to be made and loaded first
;You will see a dialog appearing asking you to locate directory containing hash table 
;you want to make and load

;if you want to make and load hash table first, then add "-z" to end
;if you don't want to free hash table at end, then add a "-x" after the z 
;space in between the -z and -x , see usage below

;if you previouslly saved the hash table as a binary file, data only or ini format
;you will need to apply the respective switches for this, hense what the <switches> is for
;-b = binary file  , -n = data read only  , -i = hash table treated like a ini file

;USAGE: /get.hash <hash table name> <switches> -z -x

;Now its very important you have 3 items after the hash table name, even if you don't want to 
;use a certain part. so any part you don't want to use, replace with a "no", see below
;USAGE; /get.hash <hash table name> no no -x

alias get.hash {
  window -ak(0) @hash
  aline @hash Item $chr(9) $chr(9) Data
  aline @hash ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  var %hash.name = $1 
  var %switches = $2
  if ( $3 == -z ) { 
    var %hashtable = $+(",$sfile($mircdir),")
    hmake %hash.name
    if ( %switches == no ) { hload %hash.name %hashtable }
    else { hload %switches %hash.name %hashtable }
  }
  var %i = 1
  while ( $hget(%hash.name,%i).item ) {
    var %item = $ifmatch , %data = $hget(%hash.name,%i).data
    aline @hash %item $chr(9) $chr(9) %data
    inc %i
  }
  if ( $4 == -x ) { hfree %hash.name }
}