my $hash = {
  env4 => 20140830
  env1 => 20140829
  env2 => 20140828
  env3 => 20140828
};

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I have a whole bunch of environments env1, env2, etc each with a corresponding date. I want to simply loop through the key value pairs in order of descending date (i.e larger dates first). If the environments have the same date, order does not matter. Basically, I want to do a reverse sort by value (not key) of the pairs that come out of perl each... but how??? I've also seen on the Internet that "each" should be avoided... So i want to end up with the following output: 
env4, 20140830
env1, 20140829
env2, 20140828
env3, 20140828

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thanks! Michael

In reply to struggling with what should be a very simple perl task by Anonymous Monk

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