[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello guys,
Hello,
> I can't find the solution for sorting a two-dimensional hash.
> I'm sure some of you can help me.
perldoc -q "How do I sort a hash"
> The first dimension of the hash has filenames in it, the second
> consists of two keys, 'data' and 'lines'.
>
> I want to sort the whole thing by a numerical comparison on 'lines'
> and tried this:
>
> %toc = sort { print $toc{$a}{'lines'}."\n"; $toc{$a}{'lines'} <=>
> %$toc{$b}{'lines'}; } %toc;
>
> (I also tried a bunch of other things that didn't do the job either,
> but this is the way I think it should work)
my @toc_keys = sort { $toc{ $a }{ lines } <=> $toc{ $b }{ lines } } keys %toc;
John
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