Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could help me with figuring out how to sort by value in descending order. Right now, I'm getting my inputs from different reports generated from different sources. I have the following foreach loop: 
foreach $Name(sort keys %x) {
    $total_x= $x{$Name};
    $total_y= $y($Name};

    if ($total_y> 0) {
        $total_value= $total_x/$total_y;
        
        printf INTFILE "%-50s %10.3f %15.2f %10.3f %10.5f\n", $Name, $
+total_x, $total_y, $total_value;
}

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The output file looks like: 
Name    x     y    total_value
abc     3     4         5
xyz     2     1         8

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I want to sort the output such that everything is sorted in descending order based on the total_value, so the output should be: 
Name   x     y   total_value
xyz    2     1      8
abc    3     4      5

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The problem is that the computation of total_value is done inside the loop, so I was wondering if there was anyway around it. I need to keep the foreach loop to get the values of x and y. Thanks.

-r

Edit by dws to add <code> tags

In reply to Sorting by Value by rchou2

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