in reply to Sorting complex data

I'm assuming that you're interested just in the "report" sub-structure, so I'm only sorting that part. And I'm assuming that you want a numerical sort for ID's.

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my $json_response = { 'report' => [ { 'stat' => 1, 'timestamp' => '1360775722', 'status' => '"Active"', 'name' => '"09:15 am, 13 Feb, 2013"', 'id' => '200' }, { 'stat' => 1, 'timestamp' => '1360775806', 'status' => '"Active"', 'name' => '"09:16 am, 13 Feb, 2013"', 'id' => '199' } ], 'username' => 'test' }; my @sorted = sort { $a->{id} <=> $b->{id} } @{ $json_response->{report +} }; print Dumper \@sorted;

Dave