Dear Monks,

While Config::General with Tie::IxHash works very well for me, there is an issue I'm struggling with; The order of the keys are not retained when the configuration file is saved.

Sample perl script

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Config::General qw{ParseConfig};
use Tie::IxHash;

my $file = 'test.cfg';

tie my %CFG, "Tie::IxHash";
%CFG = ParseConfig(
  -ConfigFile     => $file, 
  -Tie            => "Tie::IxHash",
);

print "When freshly loaded:\n";
print join "\n", keys %CFG;
print "\n\n";

(new Config::General(
  -ConfigHash => \%CFG,
  -Tie => "Tie::IxHash",
))->save_file($file);
# SaveConfig appears "equally bad" at this..

%CFG = ParseConfig(
  -ConfigFile     => $file, 
  -Tie            => "Tie::IxHash",
);

print "When saved & reloaded:\n";
print join "\n", keys %CFG;
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<abc1>
    opt   val
</abc1>
<abc2>
    opt   val
</abc2>
<cba1>
    opt   val
</cba1>
<cba2>
    opt   val
</cba2>
<test1>
    opt   val
</test1>
<test2>
    opt   val
</test2>
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When freshly loaded:
abc1
abc2
cba1
cba2
test1
test2

When saved & reloaded:
test1
cba2
abc2
abc1
test2
cba1
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I would like the original order of those keys retained when the config file is saved and loaded again. Is this possible, or do I need to implement my own "save tied hash order to file" function?