G'day Ed,

I didn't spend a huge amount of time going through your code; however, this part stood out as a potential problem: 

foreach my $recid ( reverse sort %SeqOrders ) ...

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That will expand all keys and values in the hash to form a list; that list will then be sorted and then reversed. Consider this minimal example of what's happening: 

$ perl -MData::Dump -e '%x = qw{a 1 b 2 c 3}; dd \%x; dd { reverse sor
+t %x }'
{ a => 1, b => 2, c => 3 }
{ 2 => 1, a => 3, c => "b" }

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The foreach loop will set all keys and values to $recid; that will be twice the number of the keys and hence "an output file twice the size of the expected result".

You probably want something closer to: 

my %rev_seq = reverse %SeqOrders;
for my $recid (sort keys %rev_seq) {
    ...
}

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— Ken

In reply to Re: Building a hash from file and getting wrong result. by kcott
in thread Building a hash from file and getting wrong result. by flexvault

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