#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use feature qw/say/; use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/; my %data = ( "key0.1" => [ { "key1.1" => 3.3, "key1.2" => 17.8, "key1.3" => -2.4, }, { "key1.4" => 5.1, "key1.5" => 13, }, { "key1.6" => -69, "key1.7" => 127, "key1.8" => 2.718, "key1.9" => 3.3, }, ], "key0.2" => [ { "key1.10" => 3.3, "key1.11" => 2.5, }, { "key1.12" => -33, }, ], ); my %flat = (); while (my ($k0,$v0) = each %data) { my $k1=-1; for my $v1 (@$v0) { $k1++; while (my ($k2,$v2) = each %$v1) { $flat{$k0,$k1,$k2} = $v2; } } } my @sorted_keys = sort { $flat{$a} <=> $flat{$b} } keys %flat; for my $k (@sorted_keys) { my $v = $flat{$k}; say "$v \t<= \t", join ", ", split ( $; , $k ); }