Thank you Rolf. I am looking to order the elements of, say, a single array according to a list determined held separately. So, if my original array was ordered

@array = (ATVELLSFL, QLFHLCLII, YLVSFGVWI, MQLFHLCLI);

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and my order preference is

MQLFHLCLI
FLPSDFFPS
YLVSFGVWI
LLWFHISCL
QLFHLCLII
IISCSCPTV
ELMNLATWV
HISCLTFGR
ATVELLSFL

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then my array should be re-ordered

@orderedArray = (MQLFHLCLI, YLVSFGVWI, QLFHLCLII, ATVELLSFL);

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The length of the array to ordered will always be shorter than the my order preference list, because this list is used with a large number of different arrays

Apologies for not explaining my question properly in the first place

In reply to Re^2: Sort array using a ranking system from separate hash by Sandy_Bio_Perl
in thread Sort array using a ranking system from separate hash by Sandy_Bio_Perl

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