In response to your /msg (it's easier to reply here than in a bunch of /msgs):

I was wondering a little about your method you provided on my question regarding sort. It works just as I want but Im just curious about how its working. Im pretty new to Perl and I've not seen that kind of syntax berfore regarding ? and :

Essentially, the conditional (or ternary) operator:boolean expr ? expr1 : expr2 is similar to if( boolean expr ) { expr1 } else { expr2 }, except that the former is an expression rather than a statement, and thus has a residual value once evaluated.

In the case of the sort block:

    $a->{routedistance} && $b->{routedistance} 
     ? $a->{routedistance} <=> $b->{routedistance}
     : $a->{distance} <=> $b->{distance}

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it says: if both routedistances are true (are non-zero), then return the result of comparing them; else return the result of comparing the two distances.

See Conditional operator for (a little) more.

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In reply to Re^4: Sorting an array of hashes with an exeption by BrowserUk
in thread Sorting an array of hashes with an exception by martin_87

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