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in thread Sorting an Array

You could also use a date parsing module such as Date::Parse and do a Schwartzian Transform: 

use Date::Parse;

# ...

my @statements =
    map  { $_->[1]                                  }
    sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0]                      }
    map  { [ str2time($_->{'statement_date'}), $_ ] }
    @statements;

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Other date-parsing modules that might be of interest include Date::Manip, HTTP::Date, and Time::ParseDate.

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Re^4: Sorting an Array
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jul 31, 2014 at 17:22 UTC
    Or, you can use Time::Piece (core since 5.10) and Orcish Maneuver: 
    my %cache;
@sorted = sort {
    ( $cache{$a} //= 'Time::Piece'->strptime($a->{statement_date}, '%m
+/%d/%Y') )
      <=>
    ( $cache{$b} //= 'Time::Piece'->strptime($b->{statement_date}, '%m
+/%d/%Y') )
} @statements;

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