G'day madM,

Welcome to the monastery.

As others have pointed out, this is a poorly worded question: you tell from all the guesswork and requests for more information. Better questions get better answers: "How do I post a question effectively?" explains how to achieve this.

Here's my take on a solution: 

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E '
    my %hash = (A => 4, B => 5, C => 10, D => 2, E => 9);
    local $" = "\t";

    for my $key (sort keys %hash) {
        say "@{[map { qq{$key * $_ = } . $hash{$key} * $hash{$_} }
                sort grep { $_ ne $key } keys %hash]}"
    }
'
A * B = 20      A * C = 40      A * D = 8       A * E = 36
B * A = 20      B * C = 50      B * D = 10      B * E = 45
C * A = 40      C * B = 50      C * D = 20      C * E = 90
D * A = 8       D * B = 10      D * C = 20      D * E = 18
E * A = 36      E * B = 45      E * C = 90      E * D = 18

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: iterations in a hash by kcott
in thread iterations in a hash by madM

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