in reply to sorting hashes by value

You're near, but if you want to get keys out, you need to put keys in:

@keys = sort {
           $word_list{$a} <=> $word_list{$b}
        } keys %word_list;

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Re: Re: sorting hashes by value
by imlou (Sexton) on Nov 08, 2002 at 21:47 UTC
    To print the values with the words...would it be... 
    @keysorted = sort {$word_list{$b} <=> $word_list{$a}} keys %word_list;

for $i (0..$#keysorted){
  for $word(keys %{$keysorted[$i]}){
    pritn "$word = $keys[$i]{word}\n";

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      There's an easier way to do it: 
      foreach my $key ( 
  sort { $word_list{$b} <=>  $word_list{$a} }
  keys %word_list ) {
  
    print $key, " ", $word_list{$key}, "\n";
}

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