in reply to How to improve this data structure?

Why an array of hashes? If you used a hash of arrays of hashes:

push @{ %statHash{ $RegionNum } }, { AR=>$AR[$RegionNum], BCR=>$BCR[$R +egionNum], ... };

You only need to sort the subset of hashes in each region (and avoid the grep).


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