RE: neither clever nor useful array vs. hash example

[ZZamboni]

It's not the version of perl that keeps you from doing retrieval in the order of insertion. Hashes are that way by nature. There is no guarantee of the order in which the elements will come out when you use keys or each.

--ZZamboni

[KM]

On an aside, you can look at japhy's YAPC 19100 talk on making a ordered hash. No real revelations, but is pretty interesting and the technique is useful. It is here.

Cheers,
KM

[ybiC]

Thanks for taking time to comment, ZZamboni. I really should have phrased my "p.s." something like :

p.s. I played a bit with a module that facilitates Hash insertion order retrieval, but couldn't make it work. Wish I could remember the module - stumbled across it somewhere in O'Reilly Perl CD Bookshelf.

It's as likely or more that I had bad syntax than a down-level Perl incompatibility. Is nothing important to me at the moment. By the time I expect to pick it back up, hope to be on Debian 2.2 with a newer $^X$]

[ZZamboni]

Wish I could remember the module

Maybe Tie::IxHash?

--ZZamboni

[ybiC]

"Maybe Tie::IxHash?"

Yep, that's it - thanks for the link, ZZamboni! README says it "requires: Perl Version 5.003 or later", which shoots down my off-the-cuff guess of version compatibility problem. When I get a chance, will spend a bit more time getting syntax right.