It's quite impossible to change a hash-key, they are constant strings - strictly speaking they cannot even be numbers.
The string "465.274" is converted to a number when needed by perl, so that should not give you this warning, as the following code shows:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wl
use strict;
my @array = qw(465.274 21893.32 72.37); # qw creates quoted strings
print for (sort {$a <=> $b} @array);
output:
72.37
465.274
21893.32
No warnings at all.
Joost
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