Hashes can't be sorted b/c they have no order.

But you can keep sorted arrays of keys or values.

Your wish to keep the "path"s of a HoAoH sorted is a strong indication for me that you might wanna check the multi-dim hashes we inherited from Perl4.

Like this you could flatten your data to a 1-dim hash

$hash{$key0,$idx0,$key1}=<some floating point value>

and keep an array of sorted @keys .

Looks far simpler for me! (effectively it's using your concat approach w/o the overhead of the origanal HoAoH)

If you need this more often you might wanna check on tiehash solutions on CPAN to allow sorted hashes by encapsulating the sorted @keys .

HTH =)

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

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fixed syntax error by 's/;/,/'

In reply to Re: sorting hash of array of hashes by value by LanX
in thread sorting hash of array of hashes by value by Special_K

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