On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Ron Smith wrote:
> How can I assure printing the correct order?
You can't guarantee the order of keys in a hash per se. For efficiency
and optimization, hashes are stored in a random order, unlike arrays,
which do have a straightforward order.
The trick then is to sort the hash keys. Instead of this:
> foreach ( keys( %values ) ) {
Try this, or a variant on this:
foreach ( sort keys( %values ) ) {
You can get more sophisticated than this, but doing at least this much
sorting on the keys should start producing consistent results.
--
Chris Devers
DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
