use strict; use warnings; my @arr = ('foo','bar','qux','foo1','bar1','qux1'); my %hash = ( '4-5' => '0.750', '0-4' => '0.167', '0-2' => '0.600', '2-3' => '0.200', '2-4' => '0.300', '0-3' => '0.300', '2-5' => '0.400', '1-2' => '0.550', '1-5' => '0.273', '3-4' => '0.300', '1-4' => '0.182', '0-1' => '0.917', '3-5' => '0.400', '0-5' => '0.250', '1-3' => '0.300' ); my @nodew; for ( keys %hash ) { my $v = $hash{$_}; $nodew[$_] += $v for /(\d+)/g; } my @sorted_node_indices = sort { $nodew[$a] <=> $nodew[$b] } 0 .. $#nodew; my @arr_sorted = @arr[ @sorted_node_indices ]; #### use strict; use warnings; my @arr = ('foo','bar','qux','foo1','bar1','qux1'); my %hash = ( '4-5' => '0.750', '0-4' => '0.167', '0-2' => '0.600', '2-3' => '0.200', '2-4' => '0.300', '0-3' => '0.300', '2-5' => '0.400', '1-2' => '0.550', '1-5' => '0.273', '3-4' => '0.300', '1-4' => '0.182', '0-1' => '0.917', '3-5' => '0.400', '0-5' => '0.250', '1-3' => '0.300' ); my %edgew; for ( keys %hash ) { my( $from, $to ) = @arr[ /(\d+)/g ]; $edgew{$from}{$to} = $edgew{$to}{$from} = $hash{$_}; } for my $from ( sort keys %edgew ) { print "$from:\n"; print "\t$_ : $edgew{$from}{$_}\n" for sort { $edgew{$from}{$a} <=> $edgew{$from}{$b} } keys %{ $edgew{$from} }; }