Ah, that makes sense, because you want the HTML output to be in the right order. The tricky thing is that the outer hash and each of the inner hashes must be tied to Tie::IxHash... I'm trying to imagine the code for that, and it's not coming out very pretty. :)

So, I'll propose an array of arrays solution instead. 

my @tmpl_array = (
    urlloopA => [
        'Home'     => '/',
        'Icons'    => '/icons/',
        'Sitedocs' => '/doc/',
    ],
    urlloopB => [
        'Cisco'      => 'http://www.cisco.com/',
        'CPAN'       => 'http://search.cpan.org/',
        'Google'     => 'http://www.google.com/',
        'Perl Monks' => 'http://www.perlmonks.org/',
    ],
);

for (my $i = 0; $i < $#tmpl_array; $i+=2) {
    my($loop, $aref) = @tmpl_array[$i, $i+1];

    my @vars;

    for (my $j = 0; $j < $#{$aref}; $j+=2) {
        my($name, $url) = @{$aref}[$j, $j+1];
        push @vars, { name => $name, url => $url };
    }

    $template->param($loop, [ @vars ]);
}

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We're sort of simulating the ordered hashes, by having paired elements in each of the arrays. This works because we don't actually need any hash key lookups!

Update: This code would be used with the same updated template as the hash of hashes suggestion in my earlier reply.

In reply to Re: Re: (2) Got those HTML::Template and subroutine blues (tie hash o' hashes?) by chipmunk
in thread Got those HTML::Template and subroutine blues by ybiC

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