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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;
   }

}
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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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sulfericacid

In reply to Re^2: finding next key in db_file by sulfericacid
in thread finding next key in db_file by Anonymous Monk

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