okay, I know this seems like a dumb question, but I can't think of a solution to the problem.

Scenario:

I have a hash where the key is a username and the value is a score(integer). I want to sort the hash by value, which I can do (a la the camel book). But after that, I want to find out if anyone has the same score, and return the keys of the tie socres. The problem is that I can't figure out how to look through the hash and return the key correctly. I am completely stumped.

I think that I would want to use something like:

@keys = sort{$hash{$a} cmp $hash{$b}} keys %hash;

and say

if ($hash{$a} cmp $hash{$b} = true) {return ($hash{$a} , $hash{$b})}

and stuff that stuff the result in the array. However, I can't get it to work. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

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