One way to do it is to create another hash to map the parts to the key:
my %table; my %map; foreach my $key (sort keys %Data) { my $lValue = $Data{$key}; my @array = split ' ', $lValue; my $lPartStart = $array[2]; my $lPartEnd = $array[4]; my $lReference = $array[8]; chop($lReference); $table{$lReference} = [] unless exists $table{$lReference}; push @{$table{$lReference}}, $lPartStart; $map{$lReference}{$lPartStart} = $key; # THIS LINE ADDED } foreach my $lReference (sort keys %table) { print "Ref: $lReference, parts: "; my @parts = @{$table{$lReference}}; print join ', ', sort @parts; print "\n"; } foreach my $lReference (sort keys %table) { print "Ref: $lReference, lines: "; my @parts = @{$table{$lReference}}; my @lines = map { $map{$lReference}{$_} } sort @parts; print join ', ', @lines; print "\n"; }
Output:
Ref: 1, parts: 1, 2, 3 Ref: 2, parts: 2, 3, 4 Ref: 1, lines: 5, 4, 6 Ref: 2, lines: 17, 18, 16

In reply to Re: Help needed sorting data with multiple associated hashes by tangent
in thread Help needed sorting data with multiple associated hashes by willk1980

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