iwanthome,
If you are going to be adding/removing/updating keys and values, but you want the hash to always be sorted when accessing it, you can use Tie::Hash::Sorted. 
use Tie::Hash::Sorted;

my $custom_sort = sub {
    my $hash = shift;
    [ sort { $hash->{$b}{pkts} <=> $hash->{$a}{pkts}
                                ||
      $hash->{$b}{size} <=> $hash->{$a}{size} } keys %$hash
    ];
};
tie my %flows, 'Tie::Hash::Sorted', 
    'Sort_Routine' => $custom_sort,
    'Optimization' => 'none'
;
for ( keys %flows ) {
    # Will always be sorted the way you want
}

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If you encounter any bugs, let me know and I will try to fix them.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: How to sort HASH? by Limbic~Region
in thread How to sort HASH? by iwanthome

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