Do you mean something like:

$Records{'1'}{'Meta'}{'Name'} = 'Alice';
$Records{'1'}{'Packages'}{'PackageID'} = 1;
$Records{'2'}{'Meta'}{'Name'} = 'Bob';
$Records{'2'}{'Packages'}{'PackageID'} = 1;

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If so, you can get a list of customer ids sorted by name like this:

my @sorted =
   map $_->[0],                            # transform pairs back into
+ ids
   sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] }            # sort by name
   map [ $_, $Records{$_}{Meta}{Name} ],   # transform into [id, name]
+ pairs
   keys %Records;                          # list of customer ids

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If that's not your data structure, could you please post a small example of your data?

toby döt ink

In reply to Re: Sorting hash on deep value by tobyink
in thread Sorting hash on deep value by Stickybit

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