Not inherent in the hash. You could store the ordinal value as one of the values in a hash of arrays, and then sort on that when you retrieve the values, but there is really no way to guarantee the order in which it will be retrieved from the hash is the same order in which it was inserted. To preserve your order, you need to use an array.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fish, David Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reading hash arrays in the order it was written Hello! The problem I am having is I am pulling data from a table in a certain order and loading it into the hash array but when I read the hash array it comes out in a different order than it is written. What I have done as a work around, is the read the data from a file that has it in the correct order. Is there away to build the hash so that it reads in the order it was created? Key creation and hash build: select statement ordering by certain columns ...... $key = sprintf("%04d%07d%07d",$chk_num,$trans_seq,$dtl_seq); $midtlinfo{$key} = sprintf("%d|%d|%s|%d|%d|%d|%d|%d|%d|%d|%d|%d|%d|%d|%s|%s|%d|%d|%0.2f|%0. 2f|%0.2f", $se_chk_mi_seq, $obj_num, $business_date, $chk_num, $trans_seq, ........ ); Reading of the hash: foreach $mk (keys %midtlinfo) @mrec = split(/\|/,$midtlinfo{$mk}); .... } David Fish Senior Systems Analyst Property Systems Services Work (301) 380-3331 Fax (301) 644-7521 BlackBerry (301) 646-8985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
