Re: How do you sort keys of a hash in descending order and print 3 per line?

I think you are trying too hard :)

my %accounts = (
  tom => "BigApple",
  tom2 => "BigApple2",
  tom3 => "BigApple3",
  tom4 => "BigApple4",
  tom5 => "BigApple5",
  tom6 => "BigApple6",
  tom7 => "BigApple7",
);
# sort the users in descending order
my $counter = 1;
for my $userID (reverse sort keys %accounts) {
  print "$userID\t";
  print "\n" if $counter++ % 3 == 0;
}

tom7    tom6    tom5    
tom4    tom3    tom2    
tom
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Re^2: How do you sort keys of a hash in descending order and print 3 per line? by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 16, 2016 at 05:39 UTC
You can avoid mucking about with counters and stuff by making the implicit list in the for loop an explicit array then splice chunks off it: `#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my %accounts = ( tom => "BigApple", tom2 => "BigApple2", tom3 => "BigApple3", tom4 => "BigApple4", tom5 => "BigApple5", tom6 => "BigApple6", tom7 => "BigApple7", ); my @keys = reverse sort keys %accounts; print join ("\t", @$_), "\n" while @$_ = splice @keys, 0, 3;` [download] Prints: `tom7 tom6 tom5 tom4 tom3 tom2 tom` [download] Premature optimization is the root of all job security	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: How do you sort keys of a hash in descending order and print 3 per line? by MikeyG (Novice) on Mar 16, 2016 at 03:32 UTC
I received this message: Argument "t" isn't numeric le (<=) at c:\users\michael\desktop\lab7-startup.pl line 119, <STDIN> line 17. Any idea why?	[reply]
Re^3: How do you sort keys of a hash in descending order and print 3 per line? by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Mar 16, 2016 at 03:47 UTC
I received this message: Argument "t" isn't numeric le (<=) ... Any idea why? Because you've mis-copy/pasted the code. I can copy/paste the exact code posted by bangor above and run it with warnings and strict enabled, and no complaint from Perl. Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How do you sort keys of a hash in descending order and print 3 per line? by MikeyG (Novice) on Mar 16, 2016 at 03:52 UTC
My code looks exactly like the one you suggested.	[reply]
Re^5: How do you sort keys of a hash in descending order and print 3 per line? by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Mar 16, 2016 at 04:03 UTC
Re^6: How do you sort keys of a hash in descending order and print 3 per line? by Marshall (Canon) on Mar 17, 2016 at 12:03 UTC
Re^3: How do you sort keys of a hash in descending order and print 3 per line? by 1nickt (Canon) on Mar 16, 2016 at 03:49 UTC
He's a monk, not a clairvoyant! Please post the relevant line of code that the error is pointing you to :-) The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]