c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "use Data::Dump qw(dd); ;; my %hash = qw(title1 uno title3 tres title4 quatro title2 dos); ;; my @labels = sort keys %hash; my @content = @hash{@labels}; ;; dd \%hash; dd \@labels; dd \@content; " { title1 => "uno", title2 => "dos", title3 => "tres", title4 => "quatro" } ["title1", "title2", "title3", "title4"] ["uno", "dos", "tres", "quatro"]