Take a look at Tie::IxHash. In case you are interested in doing something by yourself, I did some before:

package OrderedHash;
use strict;

sub new {
   my $self = {};
   $self->{INDEX} = {};
   $self->{PAIRS} = [];
   bless $self;
   return $self;
}

sub set {
   my ($self, $key, $value) = @_;
   push @{$self->{PAIRS}}, $key;
   $self->{INDEX}->{$key} = $#{$self->{PAIRS}};
   push @{$self->{PAIRS}}, $value;
}

sub get {
   my ($self, $key) = @_;
   return $self->{PAIRS}->[$self->{INDEX}->{$key} + 1];
}

sub list_in_order {
   my $self = shift;
   my $is_key = 1;
   foreach (@{$self->{PAIRS}}) {
      if (!$is_key) {
          print "$_\n";
      } else {
          print "[$_] = ";
      }
      $is_key = !$is_key;
   }
}

1;

use OrderedHash;
use Data::Dumper;
use strict;

my $oh = new OrderedHash;
$oh->set("a", 1);
$oh->set("b", 2);
$oh->set("c", 3);
print Dumper($oh);
$oh->list_in_order;

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In reply to Re: Ordered Hashes by pg
in thread Ordered Hashes by Sprad

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