Thank you times a thousand. From the PHP world, I can relate to mapping like this: $map = array() $map["$gameid_$year_$month_$day"][]['count'] = 3; ...

Thank you times a thousand. From the PHP world, I can relate to mapping like this: $map = array() $map["$gameid_$year_$month_$day"][]['count'] = 3; ... $map["$gameid_$year_$month_$day"][]['count'] = 1; Then $arr gets reduced with another few steps of script.