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in thread Indexing a data structure

I tried: 
#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

my @a;

$a[1]{total} = 10;
$a[2]{total} = 50;
$a[3]{total} = 40;
$a[4]{total} = 30;
$a[5]{total} = 20;

my @b = map { $_->[1] }
            sort { $b <=> $a }
            map { [ $a[ $_ ]->{total}, $_ ] } 0..$#a;

for my $x (0..$#b)
{
    print "$b[$x] = $a[$b[$x]]{total}\n";
}

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And the output was: 
5 = 20
4 = 30
3 = 40
2 = 50
1 = 10
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or ...
0 =

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I understand the waring since the code refers to element 0 of the array @a when it was never defined. However the output is not what I expected. I was looking for: 
2 = 50
3 = 40
4 = 30
5 = 20
1 = 10

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Re: Re: Re: Indexing a data structure
by graff (Chancellor) on Oct 16, 2003 at 03:11 UTC
    I think the solution is actually simpler than what Fletch suggested: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

my @ary;  # let's avoid confusion with the $a and $b used by sort()

$ary[0]{total} = 5;  # let's avoid those silly warnings
$ary[1]{total} = 10;
$ary[2]{total} = 50;
$ary[3]{total} = 40;
$ary[4]{total} = 30;
$ary[5]{total} = 20;

my @bry = sort { $ary[$b]{total} <=> $ary[$a]{total} } 0..$#ary;

for my $x (0..$#bry)
{
    print "$bry[$x] = $ary[$bry[$x]]{total}\n";
}

__OUTPUT__
2 = 50
3 = 40
4 = 30
5 = 20
1 = 10
0 = 5

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      That's great!! It's fast and returns the correct data. ++
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