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Once you have your files read in using push(@{$health{$patient}},$level); you should end up with a structure like so:

%health = (
    'John Kay' => [151,128],
    'Sally Gi' => [174,145],
);
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You can then iterate through the hash of arrays using while or for:

while ( my ($patient,$levels) = each %health ) {
    my @ascending = sort {$a <=> $b} @$levels;
    print "$patient: @ascending\n";
}

for my $patient ( keys %health ) {
    my $levels = $health{$patient};
    my @descending = sort {$b <=> $a} @$levels;
    print "$patient: @descending\n";
}
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Output:

John Kay: 128 151
Sally Gi: 145 174

John Kay: 151 128
Sally Gi: 174 145
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in thread Push Function and Hash by eepvesity

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