Hello Monks. This is my first post. I'm quite new to Perl, and am only now starting to churn out useful things regularly. I do, though, have a question... I understand that the order of data in hashes is determined, and optimized by Perl. However, is that order static? What I mean to say is, if I created an array, that would order itself based on the order of the keys in the hash, would that order change the next time Perl sees fit? Or does it remain static until I change a key=value pair? And I have to say, being a member of several forums, I have never seen anything like this. It's very different, and very cool:) Thank you in advance. -Adam

In reply to Determining hash order for sorting array by PenguinPwrdBox

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