A few pointers:

• Typing in ALL CAPS is considered impolite.
• Associative arrays in Perl are now more commonly known as hashes.
• The keys in hashes are always strings, so the question is whether or not you want it sorted numerically (I'm assuming 'no')
• And welcome to Perlmonks :) Have fun!

How do you plan to use this? Hashes are inherently unsorted and, therefore, sorting them is useless. Sorting their data and using the output of the sort, however, is quite useful:

foreach my $key (sort keys %hash) {
    print "$key $hash{$key}\n";
}
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