Random Value Generation in an Hash

[vishi83]

Please see this code below...

#!/usr/bin/perl

  package Simple;

  use Class::MethodMaker
    get_set       => [qw(Name Id Team)],
    new_hash_init => 'hash_init';

  sub init  {
    my $self   = shift;
    return $self->hash_init(%values);
  }
  1;

  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use Simple;
  use Data::Dumper;
  my $test;

line : x  $test=Simple->hash_init(Name=>'Vishi', Id=>1049,Team=>'OpenS
+ource');
  print Dumper $test;

In my line : X ... when i pass an hash to my hash_init method and print it ($test), i find my arguments getting printed randomly, even in this Obj Oriented Style .. I want them to get printed as
Name=>'vishi', Id=>1049,Team=>'OpenSource' But these values are not in order..

Thanks in advance.. vishi

[virtualsue]

Hashes by design do not store or present their key/value pairs in the order in which they have been inserted. This is documented in perldoc perldata.

See Tie::IxHash for one way to preserve the order in which keys have been added to a hash.

[Skeeve]

If you want a specific order in your output, you have to take care for it.

It's the implementation of hashes that "randomizes" the order of elements.