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Message: [QUOTE="Pat, post: 4849796"] Hi, I'd like to use "Tie::IxHash" to maintain the order of keys in a hash. Since the hash can contain other hashes (and so on), I need to use "Tie::IxHash::Easy" so that the nested hashes also maintain their ordering. I'm reading the entire hash from a file. The format of the file is exactly like Data::Dumper so that I can build the hash by simply saying: eval($file_contents); This fails because there's no way to "tie" the internal workings of eval to "Tie::IxHash::Easy" so it always just returns a normal hash. Copying the returned into an IxHash has no effect because the ordering is already lost. So, how can I load an IxHash from a file in Data::Dumper format and preserve its order (including nested hashes)? Thanks. [/QUOTE]