in reply to Hash of Arrays - Sort over all array entries

Just flatten the list first (formatting the items so they sort properly), sort, then reformat how you would like to output them (which isn't even required in this case):

my %HoA = ( simpsons => [ "homer", "marge", "bart" ], flintstones => [ "fred", "barney" ], jetsons => [ "george", "jane", "elroy", "astro" ], ); my @members= sort map { my $key= $_; map " $_ : $key", @{$HoA{$key}}; } keys %HoA; print join $/, @members, ""; __END__
Produces:
astro : jetsons barney : flintstones bart : simpsons elroy : jetsons fred : flintstones george : jetsons homer : simpsons jane : jetsons marge : simpsons

                - tye