Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
Just another Perl shrine
 
PerlMonks  

comment on

( [id://3333]=superdoc: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

If you just want the output to look tidy, or to be ordered in a predictable way, then a reasonably simple lexical sort will probably serve. That will get you as far as putting all the alias-* fields next to each other, but if your goal is to make the information human-friendly - ie ordered in an arbitrary way - then the answer will have to be a form of template.

You could consider a full templating system like the Template Toolkit - the initial investment of time would almost certainly pay off later - but for your present requirements all you need is a sort of master sequence that will serve as a guide:

key type flags Alias-.* Full Name Post Office Description ... Building-.* owner

Then you just step through the template dropping the right data into your output string in response to each line. Implementing the wildcards will be a bit tricky, but you could use something like the following wildly untested bit of pseudo-perl to obey regexes in the template:

my $output; while (<template>) { chomp; for (grep { /$_/ } keys %{ $data{$key} }) { $output .= "$_: " . $data{$key}{$_} . "\n"; } }

which would of course be bristling with taint- and sanity-checks before it made it out into the world :)


In reply to Re: Printing a hash in a specific order? by thpfft
in thread Printing a hash in a specific order? by Limbic~Region

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
    <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
  • Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
  • Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.
Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others admiring the Monastery: (6)
As of 2024-04-18 06:11 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found