I'd like to sort on the "Name" field after the following select statement. I'm unsure how I should be manipulating the dereferenced data structure to enable a sort on "Name".

Any ideas what I should be doing?

Wylie 
# create statement handle
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("
  SELECT ArchiveID,ArchiveName AS Name, ArchiveBrowseLocation AS Locat
+ion 
    FROM tblArchive 
   WHERE ArchiveCategory LIKE '%$searchterm%' 
   ORDER BY '$searchorder'");

#execute SQL search
$sth->execute();

#create a reference to the search results

$array_ref = $sth->fetchall_arrayref();

#Dereference the data structure returned by the
#preceding line.

#For each row in the returned array reference

foreach my $row(@$array_ref) {
        my ( $ArchiveID, $Name, $Location ) = @$row;
        }

#Sort statement in here.  Something like the following?
#@$row = sort { $name1 cmp $name2 } @$row;

#output to another script to layout the HTML to follow

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In reply to How do I sort on one of the fields in a dereferenced array reference? by wylie

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