..or by hardcoding the order into an array and use this array to generate the hash:
my @order = qw(Sports Books Places);
my %hash;
# populate the hash's slice
@hash{@order} = ( # we need a list
# of three anonymous array
["Soccer","UltimateFrisbee","Basketball"],
["Cannery Row", "Animal Farm", "East of Eden"],
["BigSur","Zion", "CrateLake"]
);
#retrieve them in the desired @order
print map { "$_ => ".(join ',',@{$hash{$_}})."\n" } @order ;
array are good to have things ordered, queue and series
hashes are better to count things or have list of uniques, or general associations.
sort can accept a block of code to do your custom sort but is impossible for
sort to know
a priori the order followed while inserting values, because hashes are unsorted, by definition.
L*
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Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.
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