I liked your approach to this, just one question, the code works with the dates in MM-DD-YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD, is this on this part of the code "2,0,1", that's the part I am confused with it, thanks!
#!/usr/bin/env perl

#use 5.032;
use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;

my @dates = qw( 02-03-2003 03-01-2022 01-15-2022 01-15-2023 01-15-2001
+ 11-15-2023);
#my @dates = qw( 2003-02-03 2015-03-01 2032-01-15 2023-01-15 2001-01-1
+5 2028-11-15);

print "\n\n ".Dumper \@dates;

my @sorted = sort { my $new_a = join( q{-}, (split(/-/,$a))[2,0,1] );
                    my $new_b = join( q{-}, (split(/-/,$b))[2,0,1] );
                    $new_b cmp $new_a } @dates;

print "\n\n $sorted[0]\n\n";

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In reply to Re^6: Get most recent data based on a date from an array of hashes. by Anonymous Monk
in thread Get most recent data based on a date from an array of hashes. by Anonymous Monk

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