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Much trickier than I thought. Thanks!

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Re^4: Sorting an array of anonymous hashes with named hashes using hash value
by haukex (Archbishop) on May 07, 2016 at 12:22 UTC

    Hi nysus,

    There is one caveat to the AM's code: because hash ordering is random, ( values %$_ )[0] picks a random value from that hash. So if I change your example data structure like so: $places->[0]{123}{name} = "Alpha";, the sort will give random results. So if you use that sort method, make sure that you know each hash at that level only has one key.

    Hope this helps,
    -- Hauke D

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