> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen P. Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:37 PM
> To: Bob Showalter
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: foreach and the ordering of array's
>
>
>
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Bob Showalter whispered:
| One way to supply a list to for/foreach is to use the keys() function
| to retrieve a list of the keys in a hash. keys() does not return the
| key values in any particular order, due to the internal representation
| of a hash.
I t
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Jeffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispere
d:
| when you run a foreach on a hash you have no idea what order you will get
| the keys unless
| you sort it, then you can only get it in the order defined by sort. If you
| use Tie::IxHash
| on a hash you can print out th
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Jeffrey Loetel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
whispered:
| Question:
| When you extract a value from an @ are you guarenteed the order that
| you are going to get?
In both cases, @ and %, you will always get a predictable order. With
arrays, it will always be ordere
owalter
> > Cc: 'beginners @ perl . org'
> > Subject: RE: foreach and the ordering of array's
> >
> >
> > when you run a foreach on a hash you have no idea what order
> > you will get
> > the keys unless
> > you sort it, then you can
> -Original Message-
> From: Jeffl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:47 AM
> To: Bob Showalter
> Cc: 'beginners @ perl . org'
> Subject: RE: foreach and the ordering of array's
>
>
> when you run a foreach on a ha
when you run a foreach on a hash you have no idea what order you will get
the keys unless
you sort it, then you can only get it in the order defined by sort. If you
use Tie::IxHash
on a hash you can print out the has in the order it was constructed.
Basically, I couldn't remeber what the Camel sa
> -Original Message-
> From: Jeffrey Loetel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: foreach and the ordering of array's
>
>
> Question:
> When you extract a value from an @ are you guarenteed the order that
> you are going
