You could try something like this:
#! perl -slw
use strict;
use Data::Dump qw[ pp ];
sub gen {
my $href = shift;
my @kByV = sort{ $href->{ $b } <=> $href->{ $a } } keys %$href;
my @dist = ( $kByV[0] ) x $href->{ $kByV[0] };
shift @kByV;
while( @kByV ) {
my $k = shift @kByV;
my $v = $href->{ $k };
my $n = int( @dist / ( $v+1 ) );
my $p = $n * $v;
splice( @dist, $p, 0, $k ), $p -= $n for reverse 1 .. $v;
}
return \@dist;
}
pp gen( { A => 4, B => 2, C => 3, D => 1 } );
pp gen( { A => 5, B => 4, C => 3, D => 2, E => 1 } );
Outputs:
C:\test>1030688.pl
["A", "C", "B", "A", "D", "C", "B", "A", "C", "A"]
["A", "B", "C", "A", "D", "B", "C", "E", "A", "B", "D", "C", "A", "B",
+ "A"]
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