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in reply to sorting arrays in respect to a different hash's values

Maybe this little example helps.

#!/usr/bin/perl -l use strict; use warnings; my %hash = ( foo => 1, whatever => { rank => 11 }, you => { rank => 2 }, want => { rank => 7 }, ); my @arr = grep { $_ ne 'foo' } keys %hash; my @sorted = sort { $hash{$a}->{rank} <=> $hash{$b}->{rank} } @arr; print "@arr"; print "@sorted";

Update:

modified test data in code

If your hash values are plain strings, than you just need to do something like:

my @sorted = sort { $hash{$a} cmp $hash{$b} } @arr;

See sort for more information about sort and the ways, how you can influence the sort.

Also see Schwartzian Transform

Update2: replaced <=> with cmp in second example; Thanks to AnomalousMonk and roboticus for pointing me on that.