in reply to HoHoH Insertion Order

Your datastructure is not an ideal fit. Instead, try a Hash of Arrays of Hashes:

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %hash; push @{$hash{alice}}, {aaaa => "20:00:00"}; push @{$hash{john}}, {ccc => "21:00:00"}; push @{$hash{alice}}, {www => "22:00:00"}; push @{$hash{john}}, {aaa => "23:00:00"}; push @{$hash{andy}}, {xxx => "24:00:00"}; push @{$hash{alice}}, {bbb => "25:00:00"}; push @{$hash{andy}}, {yyy => "26:00:00"}; print Dumper $hash{alice}; __END__ $VAR1 = [ { 'aaaa' => '20:00:00' }, { 'www' => '22:00:00' }, { 'bbb' => '25:00:00' } ];
Because each { foo => 'time' } anonymous hash is stored in a list, the order is preserved and Tie::IxHash is not needed.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)