Good Afternoon - This is my first post here - and I am relatively new to Perl - so please be patient/kind if it is in the wrong place..... I have created a structure (within a program) that looks like.... 
$the_data[$datapointcnt] =
  {
    x => $maturity_range_counter,
    y => $oas,
    rating => $rating,
    cusip => $cusip,
    description => $description,
    maturity => $maturity,
    maturity_yrs => $maturity_yrs,
    maturity_sort => $maturity_sort,
    oas => $oas,
    rich_cheap => $rich_cheap};

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where the structure is loaded correctly with data. I would like to end up with a similar structure sorted first by the maturity_sort and secondly by rich_cheap. rich_cheap is a numeric value. I saw some of the code in the O'Reilly Cookbook (4.14 & 4.15) and was a little confused with the map/sort/map. Can anyone shed some light on how the code would be structured to accomplish the desired sort. Many thanks. Andrew

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