Re: Re: DBI returning mysql columns in strange order.

[cchampion]

Wrong.

That won't solve the problem, which is the order of columns returned from a hash, not the order of records in a data set.

Since column order seems to be important, a good piece of advice would be usine specific column names (as dragonchild said) in the select statement, and fetching records with fetchrow_arrayref.

If a hash is also needed, then it must be integrated by a list of columns.

Consider this (untested) example.

my @columns = (qw(col1 col2 col3));
my $query = "SELECT " . join (",", @columns) . " FROM tablename"; 
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($query);
$sth->execute;
while (my $href = $sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
    for (@columns) {
        print "$_ => $href->{$_}\n";
    }
}