I'm trying to sort by the 'cnt' value in the sock_total hash, but can't figure out how to do it when I don't know what the $rip and $pid values are till I'm in the loop.
I managed to do this before on a HOH where I knew the outer keys, but in this case Im working my way through all values and want to show the most active sockets by count first.
I've done sorts before but having trouble figuring out how to do the same with the nested hash this round:
 example of a previous sort: 
       foreach $sym (sort {$pid_PFAULT{$pid}{$b} <=> $pid_PFAULT{$pid}
+{$a}} (keys %{$pid_PFAULT{$pid}}))
(and the above required I be inside a loop knowing the $pid value)

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Current problem HOH I need to sort: 
# text report by remoteIP:port
sub text_sock_report_byrip()
{
    my $pid, my $avg, my $rip, my $type, my $cmd;
    for $rip (keys %sock_total) {
        print "Report on remote host: $rip\n";
        for $pid (keys %{$sock_total{$rip}}) {
            printf("pid: %s\n",$pid);
            for $type (keys %{$sock_total{$rip}{$pid}}) {
                printf("\t%s, ",$type);
                printf("\tcnt: %8d, 
                  ",$sock_total{$rip}{$pid}{$type}{'cnt'});
                $avg = $sock_total{$rip}{$pid}{$type}{'tot'}
                  / $sock_total{$rip}{$pid}{$type}{'cnt'};
                printf("\tavg: %12.6f, ",$avg);
                printf("\tmin: %12.6f,
                  ",$sock_total{$rip}{$pid}{$type}{'min'});
                printf("\tmax:
           %12.6f\n",$sock_total{$rip}{$pid}{$type}{'max'});
            }
        }
    }
}

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Sample data: (where VAR1=$rip, VAR2=$pid 'cnt' => 1) ('cnt' is integer from 1>n) 
VAR1 = 'R=10.10.0.111:54998';
$VAR2 = {
          '12913' => {
                       'write' => {
                                    'tot' => '2.3e-05',
                                    'min' => '0.000023',
                                    'max' => '0.000023',
                                    'cnt' => 1
                                  }
                     }
        };
$VAR3 = 'R=10.10.1.110:57354';
$VAR4 = {
          '12913' => {
                       'read' => {
                                   'tot' => '1.5e-05',
..... etc....

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In reply to Trouble sorting a nested HOH by mielstogo

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