Close.. What I actually want to do is sort the 1st and 2nd values together, and then retrieve them in descending order. Effectively "flattening" two of the array values together (for this project, the third and fourth values are irrelevant). I'm thinking maybe something like this (does this make sense? I'm not sure what the first line will give me exactly...): 
@newarray = (@alldata{data}[0], @alldata{data}[1])
@maxref = sort { $b->{data} <=> $a->{data} } @newarray

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am I getting closer?

PS: I think my newbie status combined with this 3-dimensional array/hash/array structure has caused my cerebral cortex to rupture and leak my sanity out into the aether. :-P
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