Re: question on Perl determinism with hash keys

Gavin Bowlby wrote:
All:

Hello,

If I populate a %hash within a Perl program, is there any guarantee that
from run to run of the same Perl program the keys(%hash) function will
return identical sets of keys?

Can I assume that you are worried about the order of the keys? Do you want
the keys in a specific order?

perldoc Tie::IxHash


John
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