On an aside, you can look at japhy's YAPC 19100 talk on making a ordered hash. No real revelations, but is pretty interesting and the technique is useful. It is here.
Cheers,
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Thanks for taking time to comment, ZZamboni. I really should have phrased my "p.s." something like :
p.s. I played a bit with a module that facilitates Hash insertion order retrieval, but couldn't make it work. Wish I could remember the module - stumbled across it somewhere in O'Reilly Perl CD Bookshelf.
It's as likely or more that I had bad syntax than a down-level Perl incompatibility. Is nothing important to me at the moment. By the time I expect to pick it back up, hope to be on Debian 2.2 with a newer $^X$]
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"Maybe Tie::IxHash?"
Yep, that's it - thanks for the link, ZZamboni! README says it "requires: Perl Version 5.003 or later", which shoots down my off-the-cuff guess of version compatibility problem. When I get a chance, will spend a bit more time getting syntax right.
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