Hi Monks,

Trying to get the most recent data set from this array, "sort" not working, prints all the data instead.
I only want to get the most recent:

      {
        'Color' => 'green',
        'Step' => 'Platform',
        'acc' => '1111',
        'Date' => '08-06-2022'
      }

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Which is the most recent based on the " 'Date' => '08-06-2022'".
Any suggestions?

Test code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $data  = [
      {
        'Color' => 'green',
        'Step' => 'Platform',
        'acc' => '1111',
        'Date' => '08-06-2022'
      },
      {
        'Color' => 'black',
        'Step' => 'Platform',
        'acc' => '1111',
        'Date' => '01-05-2019'
      },
      {
        'Color' => 'blue',
        'Step' => 'Platform',
        'acc' => '1111',
        'Date' => '10-11-2020'
      },
      {
        'Color' => 'white',
        'Step' => 'Platform',
        'acc' => '1111',
        'Date' => '01-03-2022'
      },
      {
        'Color' => 'red',
        'Step' => 'Platform',
        'acc' => '1111',
        'Date' => '03-21-2021'
      },

      ];

my @filtered = sort {
  $a->{Date} cmp $b->{Date}
} @$data;

print Dumper @filtered;

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Get most recent data based on a date from an array of hashes. by Anonymous Monk

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