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in reply to sorting a hash

From your expected output you probably meant sorting the keys and not the values of the hash.

foreach ( sort {$b <=> $a} keys %hash ){
   print $_," ",$hash{$_},"\n";
}

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should answer your question (decending numeric key sorting).

Enjoy,
Mickey

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