they both have to do with hashes. question the first: how do/can you sort hashes alphabetically? and, question the second: how do/can you run a loop that loops through two hashes? here's how they come together. some of you may have read it's been awhile . . ., but if not, you don't really need to. just putting this in unnecessary context :) anyway, at this stage i'm trying to print two hashes so i can look at them and see how they match up. i'd like to sort them before hand so comparing them would be much easier. here's what i've got for the sorting: 
sort %filelist;
sort %playlist;

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and then for the printing: 
for (keys %filelist) {
    print TEST $playlist{$_} . "\n";
    print TEST2 $filelist{$_} . "\n";
    }

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now here's the two problems with those snipets. in the first one, it just doesn't sort. or, if it does, hardly the way i want. i need it alphabetically ordered, and when i look at the output, it . . . well . . . isn't. and then for the second part, what happens is that it'll print out filelist, but not playlist. if i say for (keys %playlist) instead, however, it prints playlist and not filelist. so essentially i need the two hashes sorted and some way of going through the keys for both hashes and printing them out. this is confusing because the sorting would work if they were arrays, would it not? and i just plain have no clue how to go about the second part. thanks in advance

Edit kudra, 2001-10-17 Changed title per ntc suggestion

In reply to sorting and comparing hashes by ashaman

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