Hello all,

I have a hash with the key being the field name and the value being the order in which the field is to be displayed.....like below: 

%order = ( 
    DATE => '1',
    CPP  => '2',
    ESN  => '3',
    BTS  => '4'
    );

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I'm receiving an array that would look something like this: 

@to_be_ordered = qw(CPP BTS DATE);

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What I'd like to do, is sort @to_be_ordered based on the ordering scheme defined in %order. Notice that ESN is missing....I'd like to be able to keep it in order even if some are missing.

I've looked at the sort and map functions and can't quite figure out how to manipulate the array into the way I need it.

Any help is appreciated,

Kevin

In reply to Sorting an array based on hash values by kevsurf

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