nickt9999:

The keys will come out of the hash in an arbitrary order. So you can either:

• Name the columns in alphabetic order and sort them:

  $SQL = "select userid a, giftid b ....";
  . . .
  print F "$row_ref->{$_} " for sort keys %$row_ref;
  [download]

• Specify the order you want:

  print F "$row_rf->{$_} for qw( userid gifid );
  [download]

• Or you could fetch an arrayref and print them in the order you specify in the SQL statement:

  while ($row_ref = $ST->fetchrow_arrayref) {
      print F "$row_ref->[$i] " for 0 .. $#{$row_ref};
  [download]

  By the way, that could be written better as:

  print F join(" ", @$row_ref);
  [download]

Update: changed keys to columns in first bullet point; Added while statement part to the third to illustrate fetchrow_arrayref.

...roboticus

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