Hi,

I've the following code:

my @data = (
  { name => 'john', score => '70' },
  { name => 'peter', score => '90' },
  { name => 'dan', score => '50' },
);

foreach my $href (@data) {
  print "$href->{'name'}\t$href->{'score'}\n";
}


# ouptput

john   70
peter  90
dan    50

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I'm thinking if there's a way to sort the array by 'score' to produce the output:

peter  90
john   70
dan    50

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Is there a way to do it?

Thanks :)

2005-12-17 Retitled by GrandFather to fix spelling of references (to aid searching)
Original title: 'Sorting array of hash refereces'

In reply to Sorting array of hash references by Anonymous Monk

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