I get this running ActiveState's 5.8.8 (build 817):

Case 1

salt    shaken
onions    diced
pepper    fresh
paprika    spicy
potatos    diced

Case 2

salt    shaken
onions    diced
pepper    fresh
paprika    spicy
potatos    diced

Case 3

salt    shaken
onions    diced
pepper    fresh
paprika    spicy
potatos    diced

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I suspect that it has to do with the details of the implementation of the hashing algorithm, which may differ from system to system.

My interpretation of the "random ordering" in the perldocs is simply that "we refuse to guarantee the order of the keys for a hash".

emc

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

In reply to Re^3: random behaviour of perl hashes by swampyankee
in thread random behaviour of perl hashes by evilgoblin

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