I have found the Perlfaq 4 very usefull. I found their a sample to do sorting of hash table by value : Alphabetic and Numeric but I could not find on how to do it Alpha-Numeric. Alpha Numeric : 1 2 12 a9 a12 ---- Numeric : 1 2 12 (cannot have characters) ----- Alphabetic : 1 2 13 a12 a9 ------- Anybody has an idea on how to do this. See example code below for numeric only : 


For example :
$keys{a} = 2;
$keys{b} = 1;
$keys{c} = 12;
$keys{d} = 'a12';
$keys{d} = 'a9';

# 3 = sort by value - numeric ascending- will not work if contain char
+acters

  foreach my $key (sort {$keys{$a} <eq> $keys{$b} || length($a) <=> le
+ngth($b) || $a cmp $b} (keys %keys)) 
  {
    print "Key = $key, Value = $keys{$key}\n";
  }

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In reply to hash sort by value - Alpha Numeric by juo

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