in reply to Printing out a hash in specified format

hmm something like this?

my @order=qw/MyHost MyLogdate MyDataset backup-time backup-status/; for my $BckupSet_hr ( values %{ $MyItems{$server} } ) { print "$_ => ",$BckupSet_hr->{$_},";\t" for (@order); print "\n"; }

Thats untested code, please take it as a base if it doesn't fit.

BTW: better use print Dumper(\%MyItems); instead of print Dumper(%MyItems);!

Cheers Rolf