OK, for those onlookers: After extensive conversation in the chatterbox, Clownburner told me the following:

{name} and {data} arrays map 1:1 onto each other, and the first two elements of the {data} array correspond to input and output rates, while the first two elements of the {name} array correspond to filenames.

Clownburner wants a list of filenames sorted by greatest rates (input or output).

First, get the list of name-value pairs for the first two values of {data} from @alldata 

my @names_and_rates = map { [ $_->{name}[0], $_->{data}[0] ],
                [ $_->{name}[1], $_->{data}[1] ] } 
            @alldata;

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Now what you've got is an array, each element of which is an anonymous array consisting of a name -> rate pair. i.e.: 

@names_and_rates = ( [ name1, rate1],
            [name2, rate2],
            ...
            );

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What you want to do is sort that array by the second element of each anonymous array, i.e. 

my @final_list = sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] } @names_and_rates;
# $b first for descending order

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I think that will get you what you want. You can, of course, combine the two statements into one, e.g. 

my @final_list = sort { #sort stuff } map { #map stuff } @alldata;

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but I think that might be confusing if you come back to this code later, especially given the farrago of syntax. YMMV, IANAProfessional, etc.

I hope this is right and that it helps.

a nicety : if you want to print out the top n, do this: 

print "File\t\tRate\n";

foreach (@final_list[0 .. $n-1] ) {
    print $_->[0], "\t\t", $_->[1], "\n";
}

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Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Help with multidimensional sorting on arrays of hashed arrays by arturo
in thread Help with multidimensional sorting on arrays of hashed arrays by Clownburner

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