How can you print a hash in a sorted list where it would break into X table columns/rows? I have a hash that is sorted a-z order and since it's so long it can't be printed one per line. It needs to be broken into 3 or 4 (let's say three for now) lines.

Let's say we have 100 keys. It would find the best divided number for our rows (since we want 3 rows the best it can do is 33 per row but the extra 1 or 2 would have to be printed in the first or second column.

Difficult thing is, it needs to be sorted A-Z for each column, not row. So it has to be 

a     e    i
b     f    j 
c     g    k
d     h    l

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instead of 
a  b  c
d  e  f

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Anyone have ideas on how to do this? thanks!

In reply to table sorting of hashes by Anonymous Monk

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