The following code will work but if I run it with the -w flag on, I get the following warning: Variable "$self" will not stay shared at /export/home/webadmin/webmin/perl/docSearch.pm line 380.I would like to eradicate this message so that I don't fill up the error log with it. Thanks for any help! 
sub sort_results {
  #========================================
  # Sort results in descending order       
  # by date and ascending by document name
  # within a date.
  #========================================
  my $self = shift; 

  @{$self->{_search_hits}} = sort desc_by_date_asc_by_name @{$self->{_
+search_hits}};                    

  sub desc_by_date_asc_by_name {
    $self->{_database}[$b]->{numeric_date} <=> $self->{_database}[$a]-
+>{numeric_date}
    or
    $self->{_database}[$a]->{document_name} cmp $self->{_database}[$b]
+->{document_name}
    or
    $a <=> $b;
    }
}

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