Good shout, thx.

> guidance is OK :)

and here some code to correct the other contributions ;-)

I also added some printf to prettify the output. (though it might be easier to output the score before the names)

use strict;
use warnings;
#use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/;

# https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11105802

#  data stolen from tybaldt
my %score_by_name =
    (
        Alec  => 14, Alice => 12, Bob   =>  8, Donny => 13,
        Jacob => 13, Mike  => 11, Sarah => 13, First => 17
    );


# invert %score_by_name to HoA
my %names_by_score;
while ( my ($name,$score) = each %score_by_name) {
    push @{$names_by_score{$score}}, $name;
}

#pp \%names_by_score;

my $rank=0;

for my $score ( sort {$b <=> $a} keys %names_by_score ) {
    my @names = @{$names_by_score{$score}};

    # calculate ranks
    my $rank_str = $rank+1;
    $rank += @names;
    $rank_str .= "-$rank" if @names >1; # span if necessary

    # output
    printf "%3s. %-20s - %2d\n",
        $rank_str, join (", ",@names), $score;

    # printf "%3s. (%2d) %s\n",
    #     $rank_str, $score, join (", ",@names); 
}
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  1. First                - 17
  2. Alec                 - 14
3-5. Donny, Jacob, Sarah  - 13
  6. Alice                - 12
  7. Mike                 - 11
  8. Bob                  -  8
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alternative output

  1. (17) First
  2. (14) Alec
3-5. (13) Sarah, Donny, Jacob
  6. (12) Alice
  7. (11) Mike
  8. ( 8) Bob
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updates

• prettified variable names
• fixed bug with lexical sort
• added alternative output
• inverted sort makes reverse obsolete

  Cheers Rolf
  _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
  Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}

Thanks for the pretty-printing implementation.

For now tho I'm implementing the 'core functionality' (and mimicking an already existing layout). Once I get to spicing it up this will surely come in handy!