A previous reply gives some methods for deleting keys are that aren't upper case, but there's one other thing that you should be aware of: hash keys are not stored (or returned by keys) in any particular order. So your code might print "I am a monk in training", or it might print "a monk in training am I", which sounds like something Yoda might utter.

Actually, as long as your print statement includes $key, your output is also not going to be formatted quite as you expect: "TEST IABC amBAR a monk in training" is one possibility. (Note the lack of spaces, too.) What you really want inside the loop is probably something like this:
print $runset{$key}, " "

Or, even more Perlish, get rid of the enclosing loop and just use this:
print join " ", values %runset;

This latter version also eliminates the trailing space, because join only inserts delimiters between list elements.

In reply to Re: Parsing a hash table for only variables that are uppercase. by seattlejohn
in thread Parsing a hash table for only variables that are uppercase. by Rhodium

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