I have an HoHoH and I need to get information from it in the order it was inserted. As you can see, I have been messing around with Tie::IxHash but I can't get it to work for an HoHoH. Here is some demonstration code:
use Tie::IxHash; #tie %HoHoH, 'Tie::IxHash'; tie %{$HoHoH{text}}, 'Tie::IxHash'; my $HoHoH = {}; $HoHoH->{"alice"}{"aaaa"}{"time"} = "20:00:00"; $HoHoH->{"john"}{"ccc"}{"time"} = "21:00:00"; $HoHoH->{"alice"}{"www"}{"time"} = "22:00:00"; $HoHoH->{"john"}{"aaa"}{"time"} = "23:00:00"; $HoHoH->{"andy"}{"xxx"}{"time"} = "24:00:00"; $HoHoH->{"alice"}{"bbb"}{"time"} = "25:00:00"; $HoHoH->{"andy"}{"yyy"}{"time"} = "26:00:00"; foreach my $user ( sort keys %$HoHoH ) { print "$user\n"; for my $text ( keys %{$HoHoH->{ $user }} ) { print "\t$text"; for my $time ( keys %{$HoHoH->{ $user }->{ $text }} ) { print "\t$time = $HoHoH->{ $user }->{ $text }->{ $time }\n"; } } print "\n"; }
Here is what that code gives:
alice bbb time = 25:00:00 www time = 22:00:00 aaaa time = 20:00:00 andy yyy time = 26:00:00 xxx time = 24:00:00 john ccc time = 21:00:00 aaa time = 23:00:00
I am looking to sort according to names, but then I would like everything else to be output in the order it was inserted. In other words, output for alice should be:
aaaa time = 20:00:00<br> www time = 22:00:00<br> bbb time = 25:00:00<br>
It won't work to just sort by the time field as sometimes there will be more than one entry with the same time and it is imperative that they be in insertion order.

Much thanks for any ideas.

In reply to HoHoH Insertion Order by Anonymous Monk

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