[Israel.pm] order on hash

[Ephraim Dan]

Don’t rely on the order, as explicitly stated in the perldoc for “keys”:

$ perldoc -f keys
       keys HASH
               Returns a list consisting of all the keys of the named hash.
               (In scalar context, returns the number of keys.)

               The keys are returned in an apparently random order.  The
               actual random order is subject to change in future versions of
               perl, but it is guaranteed to be the same order as either the
               "values" or "each" function produces (given that the hash has
               not been modified).  Since Perl 5.8.1 the ordering is different
               even between different runs of Perl for security reasons (see
               "Algorithmic Complexity Attacks" in perlsec).

From: perl-bounces at perl.org.il [mailto:perl-bounces at perl.org.il] On Behalf Of Gaal Yahas
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 17:06
To: Perl in Israel
Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] order on hash

Don't rely on the order.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Chanan Berler <bc.other at gmail.com<mailto:bc.other at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello All,

I have 2 different Linux machines (same OS version / same Perl version):
(assuming there are least 200 keys/values - same keys/values on both machines)
I wonder if i do
foreach (keys $myHash)
{
print $_=$myHash{$_};
}

will it print the same on both machines ? will the order be exactly the same ?
friend of mine, says it's same B-Tree algorithm on both machines,
since it's same Perl version.
What do you think ?

thanks
Chanan


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