Hello Monks,

I have a data structure which looks like this, And its a Hash which has arrayrefs as values. (based on inside array[4] i got to sort this structure. 


$VAR1 = {
       '10857' => [
                       '10857',
                       'Test-host1',
                       '192.168.162.124',
                       undef,
                       undef,
                       undef,
                       undef,
                       'Timeout while connecting to "192.168.162.124:1
+61"'
                     ],
          '10715' => [
                       '10715',
                       'Test-Host2',
                       '192.168.162.146',
                       'checkPing[{HOST.IP}]',
                       '108',
                       '108',
                       '2014-04-01 20:24:01',
                       ''
                     ],
          '10778' => [
                       '10778',
                       'Test-Host3',
                       '192.168.162.144',
                       'checkPing[{HOST.IP}]',
                       '392',
                       '359',
                       '2014-04-01 20:21:12',
                       ''
                     ]
        '10582' => [
                       '10582',
                       'Test-Host3',
                       '192.168.162.95',
                       'icmppingsec',
                       '117.390000',
                       '116.493000',
                       '2014-04-01 20:23:03',
                       ''
                     ],
};

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Where i am looking at writing these values to excel using SpreadSheet::WriteExcel, and the values are sorted.
The value i am looking at sorting is 5th one. i.e 
undef, 108, 392, 117.390000

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Some places i get 'undef', some places 'NULL', some places INT, and some places 'float'.

Idea is to sort these based on 5th value and create array of arrays/hashes and loop through one by one and write it to excel. But unfortunately, i just can't think of way to do this. Any pointers are greatly helpful.


Thanks

In reply to Need to sort and data structure based on values inside arrayrefs. by shekarkcb

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