On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:33:41PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > Shock horror Perl > > Hi. I want to create a hash value for a data structure, basically so that > when I write the chart I'm creating with the routine to disk I can check > if there's a recently created version already on disk before redoing the > work. Is there any accepted wisdom how to do this? > > Ideas already considered: > > - Data dumper, then md5 it > won't work if the order of hash keys change (like it will when we > upgrade to 5.8.0 soonish
What about Data::Denter then md5. Data::Denter gives you the keys alphabetically sorted. andrew -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
