How can you sort an array by a splitted value? For example, I has a hash that looks something like


my %hash(
          "bill nye" => "39||Somehere in Cali||Cali||12345",
          "homer simpson" => "36||Springfield||unknown||23456",
          "barney rubble" => "31||Bedrock||cartoon location||3456";
         );

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The hash key doesn't matter, but I split many different bits of information on || delimiters. Pretend the hash value is age||city||state||zip. How can I sort the hash by any of those delimiters? I can sort $key, but that doesn't do the job. I need to be able to print the sorted hash by ANY bit of information. (like I would want to sort the hash by City or Zip Code instead of alphabetically). Any help would be very much appreciated.

In reply to Complex hash sorting by Anonymous Monk

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