Dear keepers of Perl knowledge,

I'm working with a quite complex data structure (I think it's a array of arrays of hashes) and I need sort the results before printing. I can access each element by using @Data[$_]{ID}, @Data[$_]{Score} and looping through the number of elements.

The issue lies in the fact that I need to sort by Score and then group the results of same IDs together based on the score of the top hit with a given ID. Example:

ID: AA Score: 20
ID: D  Score: 30
ID: F  Score 7
ID: AA Score: 3

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The results should look like:

ID: D  Score: 30
ID: AA Score: 20
ID: AA Score: 3
ID: F  Score 7

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I thought about creating additional, separate hash, sorting by score, printing the 1st one and looping looking for all other with same ID (I would need to delete everything I use in the process to avoid redundancies). I presume there must a more straight forward and elegant solution. Thanks for your help.

In reply to Sorting Complex Data Structure by Anonymous Monk

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