I know, this has been covered hundreds of times before, and I have read all the examples I could find, but still cannot figure out why I can't get this bit of code to work. Trying to reverse-sort numerically by value2 THEN alpha by key. It's got to be something simple i'm missing. 
my %HoH = ( 
    "a" => { "value1" => "foo", "value2" => "1"},
    "e" => { "value1" => "bar", "value2" => "2"},
    "b" => { "value1" => "foo", "value2" => "2"},
    "f" => { "value1" => "bar", "value2" => "2"},
    "d" => { "value1" => "foo", "value2" => "3"},
    "c" => { "value1" => "bar", "value2" => "5"},
    "h" => { "value1" => "foo", "value2" => "4"},
    "g" => { "value1" => "foo", "value2" => "4"}
            );  

foreach my $key (sort { $HoH{$key}->{"value2"}{$b} <=> $HoH{$key}->{"v
+alue2"}{$a} 
                               ||  
                        $a cmp $b } keys %HoH ) { 
    my $v1 = $HoH{$key}{"value1"};
    my $v2 = $HoH{$key}{"value2"};
    printf "%s has v1=%s and v2=%d\n", $key, $v1, $v2;
    }

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PS: i'm just learning so go easy on me.

In reply to double sort HoH by value/key by rb1980

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