Hi, i'm new to perl and was hoping i could get some help here....... i'm currently running a foreach loop that looks like this: 
foreach $name (sort keys by %x) {

     $a= $x{$name} ;

     $b= $y{$name} ;

     $total = $a/$b;
    
     print $name, $a, $b, $total


}

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and i print the output into a file which looks like this: 
$name    $a   $b    $total

abc      2     3      5

xyz      2     4      6

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right now i have my output sorted by x, but i want a descending sort using the values from total....how would i implement this by still using the foreach loop i have and getting the values printed out as before only sorted by descending values of total? thanks.

Update: Added <code> tags. larsen

In reply to help with sort by value by rchou2

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