Hi Bretheren,
I was hoping the following would enable me to print out from the input percentage from the hash by key / value pairs. The hash is sorted in a specific order, but it is not coming out in that order. I need to be able to hold the UPDATE insertion order to output.
Any ideas will be much appreciated.
Gavin 
my $Percent = <STDIN>;
my $per = $Percent/100;#percent as decimal
my $pairs = (keys %lineFinal);# pairs of key/value
my $counter = 0;# zero counter
my $amount_to_print = int($per * $pairs);

foreach my $key ( keys %lineFinal) {
  if ($counter < $amount_to_print) {
    print $key, ' ', $lineFinal{$key}, "\n";
    #print OUTPERC $key, ' ', $lineFinal{$key}, "\n";
    print OUTPERC "$key\t $lineFinal{$key}\n";    
  }
  else {
    last;
  }
  $counter++;
}

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