use strict; use warnings; my $HoA_ref = {'GAT' => [2, ['ttt',-3,1],['ttc',-3,3],['ccc',-1,2]], 'AAA' => [13,['aaa',-1,2],['atg',-2,2]], 'TTT' => [11,['tta',-2,1],['atc',-3,3]] }; sub print_zHoA { my ($HoA) = shift; my $mc = (sort {$$HoA{$a}[0] <=> $$HoA{$b}[0]} keys %$HoA)[-1]; print "$mc $$HoA{$mc}[0]:\n"; for my $i ( 1 .. $#{$$HoA{$mc}} ) { print join( ',', @{$$HoA{$mc}[$i]} ), "\n"; } } print_zHoA($HoA_ref);