my @popular = (sort { $histogram{$b} <=> $histogram{$a} }  @unique)[0.
+.2];
print "@popular\n";
__END__
tomato watermelon oranges

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Correct - hash keys, sorted descending by value, first three ( values are 4,3,2). 

my @popular = (sort { $histogram{$a} <=> $histogram{$b} }  @unique)[0.
+.2];
print "@popular\n";
__END__
apple oranges watermelon

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Also correct - hash keys, sorted ascending by value, first three (values are 1,2,3).

If you iterate over the hash keys and print them out with their value, they will come out in any order. A hash isn't sorted.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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