in reply to Sorting on a split hash value

If I were doing this and I had the choice, I would come up with a better data structure. Probably something like:

my %games = ( larry => { count => 11, game => 'Doubles tennis', date => '20040116204235', }, moe => { count => 9, game => 'Singles tennis', date => '20040116203549', }, curly => { count => 1, game => 'Hopscotch', date => '20040116103814', }, );
That way I could easily add more fields later if I chose to (score perhaps?). It will also make dealing with the information that much easier.

I'll leave it as an exercise for the Anonymous Monk to get at the data in this HoH.