#!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; my $animals = { gnu => { humps => 0, }, dromedary => { humps => 1, }, camel => { humps => 2, }, }; my @humps; push @humps, $_->{humps} for map { $animals->{$_} } keys %$animals; say "Unsorted humps: @humps"; my @sorted_animals = qw{gnu dromedary camel}; my @sorted_humps; push @sorted_humps, $_->{humps} for map { $animals->{$_} } @sorted_animals; say "Sorted humps: @sorted_humps"; #### $ pm_nested_hash_extract.pl Unsorted humps: 2 0 1 Sorted humps: 0 1 2