I am really struggling to sort a multi-dimensional associative array. Hopefully someone can help me out.

I have an array such as follows:

%my_array=("Key_One"=>["50","25","100","90"],
  "Key_Two"=>["35","18","110","72"],
  "Key_Three=>["100","35","99","82"]
);

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I am trying to sort key/values according to value for the top "X" number of values per column. For example, if I have "X" set to 2, output for the sample data above would be as follows:

Column One
Key_Three = 100
Key_One = 50

Column Two
Key_Three = 35
Key_One = 25

Column Three
Key_Two = 110
Key_One = 100

Column Four
Key_One = 90
Key_Three = 82

By the way, what is a good resource for someone that wishes to become fluent at sorting data as is required by this problem? Anyone know of a good book that covers this subject well?

Thanks very much in advance.

In reply to Array Sorting Trouble by Anonymous Monk

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