multidimensional insertion order

From: Spin <cNaOlSePbA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:44:19 -0600

Is there a way to maintain insertion order in multidimensional hashes across ALL levels of the hash? If I use Tie::IxHash, it only maintains the insertion order of the first level. I am parsing a file line by line and trying to create basically a crosstab html table by converting the parsed lines to a structured 4-tier hash.

TIA
Caleb
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