Re: associative array not looking like I expect

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:05:27PM -0500, P. S. Starkey wrote:
> I have some perl script (shown below) and I am wondering why the associative
> array being built ends up looking like the printout of the array as shown
> after the code.  I would have assumed the array entries would have been
> shown in the same order they are put into the array but that is not
> happening.

this is covered in the perldata manpage: hases aren't stored in
any order. All you have is the guarantee that once you have a
hash, all iterators will retrieve the elements in the same order.

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