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That will work if days and months are zero-padded. Otherwise, "1/11" will compare equal to "11/1".

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Re: Re: Re: Sorting Criteria
by Cine (Friar) on Aug 05, 2003 at 20:03 UTC
    Yeah, silly me 
    sub sorter {
  sprintf"%04d%02d%02d",$hashYear{$a},$hashMonth{$a},$hashDay{$a} <=>
  sprintf"%04d%02d%02d",$hashYear{$b},$hashMonth{$b},$hashDay{$b}
}

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