SPUG: Sorting hash question

[Marc M. Adkins]

You might try the Tie-SortHash module on CPAN:

	http://search.cpan.org/doc/CTWETEN/Tie-SortHash-1.01/SortHash.pm

It is designed to return keys in sorted order.  Don't know how much more
efficient it will be than your default solution.

mma

> 	I'm getting at the Children of Item using:
> 		for $SubItem (values %{$$Item{Children}})
>
> 	which gives me an unsorted list of items.  I would like to
> have it sorted
> in the order of the keys of the %{$Item{Children}}.  I found lots
> of info on
> how to step through the keys of a hash sorted by value, but not
> anything on
> stepping through the values of a has sorted by key.  Is this
> easily doable,
> or should I do something like:
>
> 	for $SubItem (sort {$a<=>$b} keys %{$$Item{Children}})
> 	{
> 		$SubItem = $$Item{Children}{$SubItem};
> 		...
> 	}
>
> 	I would be greatfull for any suggestion! :)
> Thanks,
> Peter Darley


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