Hello all,

hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I am kinda new to sorting...Here is what I am trying to do with no luck.

I have hashes and files names which are both stored in an array (@hashes), what I am trying to do is sort by just the hashes then print both the hash and filename sorted, don't care if its asc or desc really.

I have also tried sorting using the #commented out sort, that also did not work.

This is what I have but it's not sorting. 

  open(FILE, $_) or die "Can't open '$_': $!";
            binmode(FILE);
            my @hashes=(Digest::MD5->new->addfile(*FILE)->hexdigest,$f
+ilename);
            my @sorted = sort {@{$a}[0] cmp @{$b}[0]} @hashes;
            #my @sorted = sort { lc($a) cmp lc($b) } @hashes;
            print "$sorted[0]  $sorted[1]\n";
        }
        close(FILE);
    }
}

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example @array contents
3343df3ffdkj34j3k34j3k testfile1
389k34d46hj3k493843kjj testfile2
lj3l4o342u423see3u43u4 testfile3

In reply to Sorting an array of hashes and filenames by learningperl01

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