O Great Ones, I humbly submit to your wisdom:

I have a program that skims data from a database and sorts it highest values first. The data is pushed into a hash as four arrays, so in effect I have four different data points in each hash, and the hashes are stored in an array. Here's how it's populated (this is in a foreach loop):

  push(@alldata, {
                  name => $filename,
                  data => $data
    });

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If I sort this beastie, it works fine like this:
my @maxref = sort { $b->{data}->[$opt{data}] <=> $a->{data}->[$opt{dat
+a}] } @alldata;

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But I can't figure out how to sort two different arrays together, for example if I want the highest values from a combination of $opt{data} = 1 and $opt{data} = 2. I tried this:
my @maxtmp1 = sort { $b->{data}->[0] <=> $a->{data}->[0] } @alldata;
my @maxtmp2 = sort { $b->{data}->[1] <=> $a->{data}->[1] } @alldata;
@maxtemp = (@maxtmp1, @maxtmp2);
@maxref = sort { $b->{data} <=> $a->{data} @maxtemp;

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But that didn't work, and I'm wasting two sort functions, so obviously this is highly suboptimal code. I'm new to perl and although I've had some successes these multidimensional arrays are blowing my tiny mind. Any suggestions??

Any and all tidbits of wisdom or direction to a perl newbie is most welcome.

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In reply to Help with multidimensional sorting on arrays of hashed arrays by Clownburner

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