This is the README file for Tie::SortHash. Tie::SortHash - Perl module to keep hashes in a sorted order SYNOPSIS ( quickie ) use Tie::SortHash; my %ascii = ( n => ord 'n', a => ord 'a', z => ord 'z' ); my $sortblock = q( $hash{$a} <=> $hash{$b} ); tie %ascii, 'Tie::SortHash', \%ascii, $sortblock; print "$_ => $ascii{$_}\n" foreach keys %ascii; This module ensures that the output will _always_ be: a => 97 n => 110 z => 122 INSTALL If, by chance, you don't know what this 'tar.gz' thing is... follow these steps first: gunzip Tie-SortHash-X.XX.tar.gz tar -xvf Tie-SortHash-X.XX.tar cd Tie-SortHash-X.XX Next, yep, you guessed it: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install AUTHOR Casey Tweten, crt@kiski.net COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2000 Casey Tweten. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.