c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -e
"my %accounts = (
    tom => \"BigApple\",
    tom2 => \"BigApple2\",
    tom3 => \"BigApple3\",
    tom4 => \"BigApple4\",
    tom5 => \"BigApple5\",
    tom6 => \"BigApple6\",
    tom7 => \"BigApple7\",
  );
  my $counter = 1;
  for my $userID (reverse sort keys %accounts) {
    print \"$userID\t\";
    print \"\n\" if $counter++ % 3 == 0;
  }
"
tom7    tom6    tom5
tom4    tom3    tom2
tom
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There's a lot of command line "noise" from having to escape all the double-quotes for Windose, but that's exactly the code I ran and its output: otherwise exactly the code bangor posted. What is the code you are running?

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