Hello Monks,
I have defined a hash and assigned values to it as follows:

my(%sortListArr);
$sortListArr{'1'} = 'A1';
$sortListArr{'2'} = 'A2';
$sortListArr{'3'} = 'A3';
$sortListArr{'4'} = 'A4';
$sortListArr{'5'} = 'A5';
$sortListArr{'6'} = 'A6';
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Then when I do a:

foreach $key (keys %sortListArr){
print $sortListArr{$key},"\n";
}
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The o/p is A1, A2....A6. However upon adding a 7th value:

$sortListArr{'7'} = 'A7';
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The o/p becomes A7, A1, A2, A3...A6. Any explanations to this mystery? The problem disappears if I assign the values as:

$sortListArr{'0'} = 'A1';
$sortListArr{'1'} = 'A2';
$sortListArr{'2'} = 'A3';
$sortListArr{'3'} = 'A4';
$sortListArr{'4'} = 'A5';
$sortListArr{'5'} = 'A6';
$sortListArr{'6'} = 'A7';
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The o/p is then A1, A2.....A7.

Tamojit

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