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You'll probably just want to build your hash as a circular linked list:
my $position_of = ( 'A' => { next_key => 'A#', prev_key => 'G#', # other stuff . . . }, 'A#' => { next_key => 'B', prev_key => 'A', # other stuff . . . }, ### in-between stuff 'G#' => { next_key => 'A', prev_key => 'G', # other stuff . . . }, );
Update: with circular linked lists you usually keep track of head/tail:
my $head = 'A'; my $tail = 'G#';

--Jim