Hi, i have an array of hashes and need it sorted by one of the fields in the hash. For instance i build my structure this way:
my @people= ();
my @names = qw(jack peter smith jason patrick sylvia randa debbie dian
+e 
john gina solomon fances jojo kwame nana esi francis ato justice);

for my $i (0 .. $#names) {
   my %hash = ();
   $hash{"age"} = int(rand 75) + 1;
   $hash{"name"} = $names[$i];
   push (@people, \%hash);
}

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and for easy printing of what we got: 
# some sort algorithm goes here
@sorted = sort by_name @people; 
for $i (0 .. $#sorted) {
   my %person = %{$sorted[$i]};
   print "$person{name} is $person{age} years old.\n";
}

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Here i need @people sorted by either the "name" or "age" field. Any ideas are welcome
Thanks all!!

In reply to Sorting an array of hashes by hash field by cyrus_dlx

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