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in thread finding next key in db_file

Why not just hack it out with a loop?
my $current = 5; my %hash = ( "1" => "one", "2" => "two", "3" => "three", "4" => "four", "5" => "five", "8" => "eight" ); while ($current) { $current++; if (exists $hash{$current}) { print "next: $hash{$current}"; last; } }

Update: solution for finding the highest num

my $highest = 0; foreach my $key (keys %hash) { if ($key > $highest) { $highest = $key; } } print "\nhighest number is: $highest";


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