Why not just do the simple way:
my %hash = (
red => 2,
pink => 1,
orange => 4,
black => 3,
blue => 4
);
my ($max, @maxKeys);
for (keys %hash) {
$max = $hash{$_} unless $max;
if ($hash{$_} > $max) {
@maxKeys = ($_);
$max = $hash{$_};
} elsif ($hash{$_} == $max) {
push @maxKeys, $_;
}
}
print "$_: $hash{$_}\n" for @maxKeys;
This will only touch each value once, which is necessary anyway for this type of problem, giving you a O(N) solution.
Update: My bad, didn't see the part about printing the keys and values, so I have updated my code accordingly.
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