in reply to Debug a sort block

It should be $a and $b not a and b °

On a side note:

> ${$partition_h{$a}}{full_tabname}

your dereferencing syntax is kind of weird, the following is much easier to read and does the same:

 $partition_h{$a}{full_tabname}

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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°) oh AnomalousMonk already told you! :)

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