Hi PerlMonks,

I'm working with the following data structure: 

#corrected code from first replies
my @inner1 = (0, 1, 2);
my @inner2 = (1, 4, 7);
my @inner3 = (2, 5, 8);
my @inner4 = (6, 7, 9);

my @array1 = (\@inner1, \@inner2, \@inner3, \@inner4);
my @array2 = (\@inner1, \@inner2, \@inner3, \@inner4);

my %hash = ('array1', \@array1, 'array2', \@array2);

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So this is a 3-dimensional array which I'd like to sort numerically ascending by the 2nd elements of the innermost arrays, to get something like: 

(6, 7, 9)
(2, 5, 8)
(1, 4, 7)
(0, 1, 2)

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This is what I was trying with no success (for my script I need to sort only one array at a time): 

foreach my $i (sort { $hash{array1}[$b][1] <=> $hash{array1}[$a][1] } 
+@{$hash{array1}}) {

print @$i[1], "\n";

}

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When testing I get back the original order of elements in the middle array.
Can anyone help why?

Thanks!

In reply to sort hash of arrays of arrays by maladav

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