Your analysis of the problem is quite accurate. If you do those steps, one at a time, you get what you want. Keep in mind that hashes can't be sorted, just their keys and/or values.

I would like to sort Hash “A” (key) in descending order
my @sorted_scores = sort { $b <=> $a } keys %HashA;

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and then align the (value) Hash “A” with Hash “B” (key).
my @sorted_words = map { $HashA{$_} } @sorted_scores;

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Then use that sort, to align Hash “C” so that the key value pairs of "C" can be printed out in the same order as the sorted “A” Hash.
my @sorted_line_nums = map { $HashB{$_} } @sorted_words;

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And the print: 

print($HashC{$_}, "\n");
   foreach @sorted_line_nums;

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All together now: 

print("$_\n");
   foreach map { $HashC{$HashB{$HashA{$_}}} }
           sort { $b <=> $a }
           keys %HashA;

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I'm curious as to how you handle two lines having the same score, if the score is the key.

In reply to Re: Sorting or Aligning Parallel Hashes by ikegami
in thread Sorting or Aligning Parallel Hashes by Gavin

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