Re: ordered hash

2004-09-24 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, brian larochelle wrote: > That makes perfect sense. Except for the last value of 'other' > which I would want at the end of the list and a choice for the > person filling out the form is they did not live in the US. A common way around this is to leave "other" out of the has

Re: ordered hash

2004-09-24 Thread brian larochelle
Thank you for your quick response Chris. That makes perfect sense. Except for the last value of 'other' which I would want at the end of the list and a choice for the person filling out the form is they did not live in the US. Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, brian larochelle wrote:

Re: ordered hash

2004-09-24 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, brian larochelle wrote: > ordered hash Hashes are, almost by definition, unordered lists of key/value pairs. If you want to work with one in order, add a sort command to accesses: my @sorted_keys = sort keys %hash; foreach $key @sorted_keys { my $value = $hash{$ke