Hello! This is the output I am trying to achieve... 

    $VAR1 = {

             'Tucson' => 'AZ',

             'Boston' => 'MA',

             'Jackson' => 'MS',

             'Dixon' => 'NM',

             'Denton' => 'TX',

             'Cincinnati' => 'OH'

           };

   1: Boston, MA

   2: Cincinnati, OH

   3: Denton, TX

   4: Dixon, NM

   5: Jackson, MS

   6: Tucson, AZ

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I am having trouble getting the cities to sort alphabetically and am not sure how to incorporate the numbering on the alphabetical sort. The Dumper output is just fine.

This is what I have so far... 

 
#!/usr/bin/env perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;
use Data::Dumper;

my %cities = (
    Tucson  => 'AZ',
    Boston  => 'MA',
    Jackson => 'MS',
    Dixon   => 'NM',
    Denton  => 'TX',
    Cincinnati   => 'OH',
);
    print Dumper(\%cities);
    

foreach my $place (sort { $cities{$a} cmp $cities{$b} } keys %cities) 
+{
    my $state = $cities{$place} ;
    print "$place, $state \n";
}

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Thank you

In reply to sorting hash alphabetically with numbering by reebee3

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