Hello Monks,

I need help with a complex (well for me anyway) sort routine. I have a hash that has various elements, and 3 of those elements are the region, country, and city. Right now I am sorting on the region, but I also need to sort on the country next, and city last.

So, for the following data: 
APAC    India    Delhi
APAC    China    Suzhou
APAC    Australia    Sydney
APAC    Japan    Tokyo
EMEA    SouthAfrica    Johannesburg
EMEA    Russia    Moscow
APAC    China    Shanghai
EMEA    Germany    Munich
EMEA    France    Paris
EMEA    Italy    Venice
NLAM    Argentina    BuenosAires2
NLAM    USA    NYC
NLAM    Brazil    San Paulo
NLAM    USA    Austin
EMEA    Italy    Rome
NLAM    USA    Boston

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I need it to be sorted as such: 
APAC    Australia    Sydney
APAC    China    Shanghai
APAC    China    Suzhou
APAC    India    Delhi
APAC    Japan    Tokyo
EMEA    France    Paris
EMEA    Germany    Munich
EMEA    Italy    Rome
EMEA    Italy    Venice
EMEA    Russia    Moscow
EMEA    SouthAfrica    Johannesburg
NLAM    Argentina    BuenosAires2
NLAM    Brazil    San Paulo
NLAM    USA    Austin
NLAM    USA    Boston
NLAM    USA    NYC

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Here is where I am extracting my hash and how I sort based on region 
sub print_stats{
 
  my $subinput = $_[0];

  for my $site1 (keys %siteInfo){
   
   #Site has to be in correct region
   next unless ($siteInfo{$site1}{region} eq $subinput); 
 
   print "$siteInfo{$site1}{region},$siteInfo{$site1}{country},$site1,
$siteInfo{$site1}{totalDevices}, ,$siteInfo{$site1}{totalVulns},
$siteInfo{$site1}{totalS5s},";
           
    }
  }
}

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Thanks,
Dru

Perl, the Leatherman of Programming languages. - qazwart

In reply to Sort a Hash 3 Levels Deep by Dru

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