Thanks all for the replies. Using the solution given, I'm trying to iterate over the values like so:
for my $user ((sort { $users{$b}->{count} <=> $users{$a}->{count} } ke +ys %users) { blah blah... }
But I get compile time errors
Global symbol "$user" requires explicit package name at
Is the problem obvious? Right now I'm being forced to sort to a list, then iterated over the items in the list:
my @sorted_users = sort { $users{$b}->{count} <=> $users{$a}->{count} } keys %users; for (@sorted_users) { blah... blahh }

In reply to Re: Sorting data structure by mhearse
in thread Sorting data structure by mhearse

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