use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; sub pretendFetch { my $cannedFetch = [ [6200249230, 2, 247.695377429616], [6200200581, 1, 131], [6200249220, 2, 394.81641303269], [6200249240, 2, 148.32734070292], [6200249269, 1, 127.84583439484], [6200249250, 2, 394.507287638644], [6200248437, 1, 234.38349845484], ]; return $cannedFetch; } my %service_id = map { $_->[1] => { stop_reference => $_->[0], distance => $_->[2] } } sort { $b->[2] <=> $a->[2] } @{ pretendFetch() }; print Data::Dumper->Dump([\%service_id], [q{*service_id}]);