Hello Monks,

I'm having trouble getting XML::Simple to sort my data. I'm trying to edit a config xml file and it doesn't sort the new name of the policy in the config file. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? 
#! C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -w

use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use XML::Simple;
use File::Copy;

my $path = "C:\\web\\policies\\";
my $folder;
my($old_file_name, $old_file, $policy_number, $name, $desc, $link_name
+, $bytesread, $buffer);


##############################
# Open xml document and edit #
##############################

if ($file)  { $link_name = $policy_number . " " . $name . '.doc' }
else         { $link_name = $old_file }

my $xs = new XML::Simple;
my $xml = $xs->XMLin("$folder_path\\policies.xml", forcearray => 1, ke
+yattr => ['policies']);
foreach my $this (@{$xml->{policies}}) {
    if ($this->{name} eq $old_file_name) {
            $this->{link_name} = $link_name;
            $this->{description} = $desc;
            $this->{policy_number} = $policy_number;
            $this->{name} = $name;
            last;
    }
}

$xs->XMLout($xml, outputfile => "$folder_path\\policies.xml", attrinde
+nt => 1);

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Everything works except the sorting. BTW I'm using activeperl 5.8 810 with xml::simple 2.12. Thanks in advance!

Update: Trimmed down.

Update2: Big thanks to jeffa! 1. For bearing with me and 2. For the relevant code.
@{ $xml->{policies} } = sort { $a->{name} cmp $b->{name}} @{ $xml->{policies} };

In reply to XML::Simple Not Sorting by bkiahg

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