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Howdy all-
Quick question for the monks ... I have a hash that is basically setup as follows: I can print information I wish by making a call such as: What I'd like to be able to do is sort the hash by the first key (aNumber.aCharacters in the first example ... 1.AB in the second print example). If possible, I would then like to sort by the second key ... then I would print/use the rest of the availble information ('one','two',etc...). My problem is that I have many random possibilties for the first and second hash keys ... they could be anything similar to the following: I would like the sort to be 'by number' of the digits before the period. I'm not sure a simple 'cmp' or '<=>' will do the trick ... and I can't figure out what to do. I searched for 'multidimensional hash sorting' on this site, but none of the questions really covered this question. So, I suppose the short version of this question: how can I sort the above hash using the digits before the period of the first two hash keys? :) In reply to sorting a complex multidimensional hash by envirodug
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