Schwartzian transform

[Dermot]

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>     # Warning: map in void context used for side-effect of setting
> {position}...
>     # (I feel so dirty! ;-)
>     my $count = 1;
>     map  { $_->[1]{position} = $count++ }
>     sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] }
>     map  { [$_->{position}, $_] }
>         values %{$ref};
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That is filthy....but i like it. There are times I need to keep the
structure as a hashref so I can find items by their key and there are times
when I want to pass the data around as an ordered array so this works well
for me too.
Dermot