my @array1 = 
  sort { $queryterms{$b} <=> $queryterm{$a} || $a cmp $b }
  keys %queryterms;
my @array2 = map { $queryterms{$_} } @array1;

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Smaller. Faster. Alternately one could just do my @sortedkeys = sort { $queryterms{$b} <=> $queryterm{$a} || $a cmp $b } keys %queryterms; and then use @queryterm{@sortkeys} instead of @array1 and @sortedkeys (better named, IMO) instead of @array1.

update: added key comparing to sort, like the original had.

(update: I would note that if you can't use perl's built-in sort, you probably should use a better algorithm. Yours takes O(N**2) comparisions where as perl's sort algorithm (and most of the good sorting algortihms) average O(N log N) comparisions. )

(I forewarn that I have not tested the code here.)

In reply to Re: sort a hash array by wog
in thread sort a hash array by fuzzysteve

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