RE: associative array not looking like I thought it would

2002-04-26 Thread David Gray
> This was all written by a vendor and I am trying to learn > PERL to modify what they did. When you say I must print it > explicitly, what exactly do you mean? You have to _sort_ it explicitly. In Timothy's example, he was sorting the hash alphabetically based on the keys. The keys function r

Re: associative array not looking like I thought it would

2002-04-26 Thread P. S. Starkey
Thanks for the info! Here is a code snippet we are using to process the array: sub ViewError( % ) { if( $MAIN::FUNCTION != $MAIN::F_NOTHING ) { if ( $MAIN::SOURCE == $MAIN::S_ERROR || $MAIN::SOURCE == $MAIN::S_BOTH) { $Err207Flag = "N"; ## P. Starkey 10/12/2000

RE: associative array not looking like I thought it would

2002-04-25 Thread Timothy Johnson
y. I commonly use a snippet of code like this when I'm printing hashes: foreach(sort keys %hash){ print $hash{$_}; } -Original Message- From: P. S. Starkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: associative array not look

associative array not looking like I thought it would

2002-04-25 Thread P. S. Starkey
I have some perl script (shown below) and I am wondering why the associative array being built ends up looking like the printout of the array as shown after the code. I would have assumed the array entries would have been shown in the same order they are put into the array but that is not happeni