Are you replying to the root node? My kludge is to get around the fact that CGI.pm has the hash ordering (which is no order) when you use the -lables argument. I often need to use labels and tie'ing is easier than sublassing CGI.pm.

As an aside, your code is overcomplicated.

print sort values %hash;
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