hmm...I cleaned it up with the follwoing code: 
foreach my $key ( keys %event_hash ) {
    print $key, "\n";
    for my $key2 ( keys %{ $event_hash{$key} } ) {    
    sort { $a <=> $b }
    print "$key2=$event_hash{$key}{$key2}\n";
    }
     print "\n";
 }

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and the output still isn't sorted:

OUTPUT 

cycVolumeSetActivityState
1=started
2=startedAutofix
3=completed
10=deleted
4=completedWithMiscompares
11=priorityChanged
5=abortedDueToIOError
20=running
12=scheduled
6=abortedDueToIOErrorWithMiscompares
21=aborted
13=modified
7=abortedByOperator
14=failedToStart
8=abortedByOperatorWithMiscompares
9=failed
15=abortedNoMemory
16=restarted
17=suspended
18=resumed
19=stopped

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In reply to Re: &bull;Re: Numerical sorting issues with a hash of hashes by Anonymous Monk
in thread Numerical sorting issues with a hash of hashes by Anonymous Monk

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