That's such tightly constrained input that only the first value of a row is needed to check it.

sub are_consecutive { my $i = $_[0]; $_ == $i++ or return 0 for @_; 1; } are_consecutive(@{$_}) or die "User can't count.$/" for values %hsh; my @big = sort {$a <=> $b} map {@{$_}} values %hsh; $big[0] == 0 && are_consecutive(@big) or die "Bad big.$/"; # originally had soln in terms of $big[0] == 0 and $big[-1] == $#big # rejected because equal number of missing and doubled terms not detec +ted
The usual hash for checking uniqueness is unneeded here because of the additional arithmetic properties you want.

What application requires that a user partition 0..N this way?

Update: cleaned up and corrected for offsetting double errors

After Compline,
Zaxo


In reply to Re: joining and sorting arrays by Zaxo
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