This seems to be a unique problem, but forgive me if it was addressed before. I'm trying to perform a hash sort by 2 values, but the stipulation is I need 1 of those values to be reverse sorted. Here's what I have (excuse my verbosity, I wanted to be very explicit): 
my @hashes = (
    {name=>'a', flag=>1},
    {name=>'a', flag=>0},
    {name=>'b', flag=>1},
    {name=>'c', flag=>0},
    {name=>'b', flag=>0}
);

@hashes = 
    sort { $a->{name} cmp $b->{name} or $a->{flag} cmp $b->{flag} } @h
+ashes;


The order that this gives me is:
name: a  flag: 0
name: b  flag: 0
name: c  flag: 0
name: a  flag: 1
name: b  flag: 1


But what I want is:
name: a  flag: 1
name: b  flag: 1
name: a  flag: 0
name: b  flag: 0
name: c  flag: 0

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As you can see, if I simply call reverse on the list, it will also reverse the name field order, which I need to retain. I was wondering if there was some kind of magic I am overlooking to get the proper results.

Thanks in advance,
Andy.

In reply to Sort hash values with one key in reverse by timecatalyst

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