I was speaking to Gurusamy Sarathy and the Data::Dumper that is in the latest Perl 5.7.x code base nicely supports sorting hashes. You can find it here: http://public.ActiveState.com/gsar/APC/perl-current/ext/Data/Dumper/

cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print