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.