While this is slightly off from your question. One thing about using CGI.pm that stinks is when you provide a hash so you can have different values and labels (as you are trying to do) it doesn't sort them. If this is why you are avoiding using CGI.pm you can use the snippet below that I use. It's a simple tie that you can use to make it sort by value. 
package SortHash;
#Kludge to get options sorted.
use Tie::Hash;
use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA = qw( Tie::StdHash );
sub FIRSTKEY {
    my $self = shift;
    @{ $self->{_SORTHASH_KEYS} } = sort {$self->{$a} cmp $self->{$b} }
+ grep { $_ ne '_SORTHASH_KEYS' } keys %{$self};
    return shift @{ $self->{_SORTHASH_KEYS} };
}

sub NEXTKEY {
    my $self = shift;     return shift @{ $self->{_SORTHASH_KEYS} };
}


package main;

use CGI qw(:standard);
my %list;
tie %list, 'SortHash' ;    # tied hash with sorted keys by value...
print start_form;
print popup_menu(-name=>'option' , labels=> \%list, -values=> [ keys %
+list ]  );
print end_form;

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In reply to Re: Sorting by the hash value by shotgunefx
in thread Sorting by the hash value by Anonymous Monk

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