danger,
This looks potentially really cool and I would like to incorporate this technique as one of the possible options of my module. The problem is I can't seem to get DB_BTREE->{compare} to do anything meaningful. I get the same result no matter what I make the sort routine. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DB_File;

tie my %h, 'DB_File', undef, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666, $DB_BTREE
   or die "DB_File tie failed: $!";

#$DB_BTREE->{compare} = sub { $h{$_[1]} <=> $h{$_[0]} };
#$DB_BTREE->{compare} = sub { $h{$_[0]} <=> $h{$_[1]} };
#$DB_BTREE->{compare} = sub { $_[0] cmp $_[1] };
#$DB_BTREE->{compare} = sub { $_[1] cmp $_[0] };


%h = (
    'John'   => 33,
    'Jacob'  => 29,
    'Jingle' => 15,
    'Heimer' => 48,
    'Smitz'  => 12,
);
print "$_ : $h{$_}\n" for keys %h;

[download]

What am I missing? - L~R

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Any Point in Uploading Tie::SortedHash by Limbic~Region
in thread Any Point in Uploading Tie::SortedHash by Limbic~Region

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.