Your post led me to believe your user ID's would be numeric. I don't think I quite understand what all of the "1, 2, ... , n | n != 1 or 2" is supposed to mean. ID's incrementing but starting at 3? If your intent is to associate a username and an ID, by all means a hash is what you want. See the documentation for sort, and perhaps How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?. To find the largest ID, you can use 'max' from List::Util on the values of the %hash, but you're better off storing that in a variable unless your script only needs to use this once.

Regardless, this is pretty basic hash usage stuff. You would benefit more from a book like Learning Perl or the Perl Cookbook.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: hash creation. by Fastolfe
in thread hash creation. by Anonymous Monk

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