Still playing with HOAs and they're definitely a beast. This print out category headers for each new number in the hash. It then prints out everything within that "category".

I need to alter the output just a little bit. The items still need to be comma delimited but now I need to be able to put an html link code around each printed word (value).

I'm still not sure how this is printing the way it is, much less know how to add more HTML to it. 

my %hash;
push @{$hash{"3"}}, "apple";
push @{$hash{"2"}}, "pear";
push @{$hash{"5"}}, "orange";
push @{$hash{"3"}}, "grape";
push @{$hash{"2"}}, "icky pineapple";
# for a lack of a better way to show my hash
# we'll create our own the hard way

for my $key (reverse sort keys %hash) 
{
   print "<b>$key characters</b><br>", join(", ", @{$hash{$key}}), "<b
+r><br>";
  
}

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to yield 
5 chars
<a href="link.pl?=orange">orange</a>

3 chars
<a href="link.pl?=apple">apple</a>, <a href="link.pl?=grape">grape</a>

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