I have data from JSON using Data::Dumper that looks like the following when I - 
 print Dumper $json_response;  

$VAR1 = {
          'report' => [
                        {
                          'stat' => 1,
                          'timestamp' => '1360775722',
                          'status' => '"Active"',
                          'name' => '"09:15 am, 13 Feb, 2013"',
                          'id' => '200'
                        },
                        {
                          'stat' => 1,
                          'timestamp' => '1360775806',
                          'status' => '"Active"',
                          'name => '"09:16 am, 13 Feb, 2013"',
                          'id' => '199'
                        }
                   ],
         'username' => 'test'
};

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Is this type of data a hash with anonymous array? I am able to grab each key, value doing: 
 
foreach (  @{$json_response->{report}}  ){
  
  my %report;
  $report{status} = $_->{status};
  $report{id}    = $_->{id};
  
  print "CGGSID: $report{id}\n";
  print "Status: $report{status}\n\n";

}

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How would I sort the data by the 'id'? I know I can push the 'id' to an array and probably sort the array, but trying to see other, more efficient way for sorting this. Thank you!

In reply to Sorting complex data by techie411

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