sorting hash in a non alpabellical order

madM has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks!
I wanted to ask you all if it is possible to sort a hash in a specific order... for example if i have a hash with this keys

A B C D E F G H I K L M N P Q R S T V W X Y Z
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and i want to order them in this specific order like this


A R N D C Q E G H I L K M F P S T W Y V B Z X
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thanks fot the help!

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Re: sorting hash in a non alpabellical order by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 13, 2014 at 11:35 UTC
A hash has no order. But maybe you want to output the elements of a hash in a particular order. Then you can use the following approach with a "hash slice" for example: `my @columns= qw(A R N D C Q E G H I L K M F P S T W Y V B Z X); my %hash= ...; print "@columns\n"; print "@hash{ @columns }\n";` [download] The alternative approach is to simply use a loop over `@columns`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: sorting hash in a non alpabellical order by madM (Beadle) on Jan 13, 2014 at 11:45 UTC
thank you! this helps me a lot :)	[reply]