%hash = ( Elliot => Babbage, Charles => Babbage, Grace => Hopper, Herman => Hollerith ); @sorted = map { { ($_ => $hash{$_}) } } sort { $hash{$a} cmp $hash{$b} or $a cmp $b } keys %hash; foreach $hashref (@sorted) { ($key, $value) = each %$hashref; print "$key => $value\n"; } #### my %data = (bananas => 1,oranges => 7,apples => 12, mangoes => 3,pears => 8,); # Using <=> instead of cmp because of the numbers foreach my $fruit (sort {$data{$a} <=> $data{$b}} keys %data) { print $fruit . ": " . $data{$fruit} . "\n"; }