in reply to Re^4: perl sort issue while going through article at perl.com
in thread perl sort issue while going through article at perl.com

Number of keys is correct. Hash keys are unique. While you can say
my %hash = ( key => 'foo', key => 'bar', key => 'quux', key => 'fizz', key => 'buzz', );

in the sense that its's legal and perl won't complain, you end up with %hash containing just one entry. Each assignment overrides the previous one, and you have

%hash = ( key => 'buzz', );

finally.

--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}