in reply to Sorting and ranking

why do you get the keys and not the values if you want to rank the keys based on the values?

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Re^2: Sorting and ranking
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 21, 2018 at 12:09 UTC
    But my sorting is actually based on the values, or?
    sort { $data{$keys[$b]} <=> $data{$keys[$a]}

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      All i meant was why not take the values iso the keys and sort those.

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        I need to keep track of both so as to print them in the end. But I do sort based on the values, I don't think this is the problem.
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