Dear Monks, I have a %hash containing a sets of numbers as keys and values. I need to numerically sort the keys and then extract keys and values (into different arrays) according to this order. I don't see why my effort below doesn't work(!) - it keeps the values in the order that they're in the hash (which don't correspond to the keys)!? Can anyone could help?? 

while ((my $key, my $value) = each (%hash))   {

    for (my $i=0; $i< @nums; $i++)   {
          if ($key eq $nums[$i])  {
               push @temps, "$key";
           }
     }
}

@temps = sort {$a<=>$b} @temps;

while ((my $key, my $value) = each (%hash))   {
        for (my $i=0; $i < @temps; $i++)   {
              if ($key eq $temps[$i])  {
                  push @fluors, "$value";
               }
         }
}

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