Hi Experts,

I have formed a hash with month (mmmyy) as a key and value (numeric), and I want the output in sorted format

my code is below

I am trying print the out put as

my %data
foreach my $key (sort keys %data) {
print "Key - $key  and b value - $data{$key}}

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Hash conetent

$VAR1 = 'Dec13';
$VAR2 = '2';
$VAR3 = 'May14';
$VAR4 = '2';
$VAR5 = 'Apr14';
$VAR6 = '2';
$VAR7 = 'Mar14';
$VAR8 = '2';

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but I am getting output as:

key - Apr14 and value - 2
key - Dec13 and value - 2
key - Mar14 and value - 2
key - May14 and value - 2

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where I want the output in sorted format

key - Dec13 and value - 2
key - Mar14 and value - 2
key - Apr14 and value - 2
key - May14 and value - 2

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Any suggestions please

In reply to sorting keys in hash by Perlseeker_1

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