I solved it with this less-than-ideal hack which works for this special case:
84 sub hash_sort { 85 my ($hash) = @_; 86 if (ref %$hash != 'REF') { 87 return [ 88 (sort {$a <=> $b} keys %$hash) 89 ]; 90 } else { 91 return [ 92 (sort {$a cmp $b} keys %$hash) 93 ]; 94 } 95 }
It tests to see if the value of the has is a reference to the anonymous hash. If not, it sorts it numerically, otherwise it gets sorted alphabetically. What would be a more robust way of solving this?

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