I want to make a index text file for many data files , I use AoH to build index, 
my @AoH=(
      {secID=>'SZ0001',
       date=>20090201,
       dataentry=>1, # dataentry is start address in data file '200902
+01.bin'
       filename=>'20090201.bin'}

       {secID=>'SZ0002',
       date=>'20090201'
       dataentry=>2,
       filename=>'20090201.bin'}

       {secID=>'SZ0001',
       date=>'20090202'
       dataentry=>1,
       filename=>'20090202.bin'}
       
       {secID=>'SZ0002',
       date=>'20090202'
       dataentry=>2,
       filename=>'20090202.bin'}


     )

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this kind of data is really like table in database,and I want to sort these rows(hash) first by "date" and then by "dataentry", also can easily search result given by "SecID" and "Date".

Is there any better way to go ?

thx

In reply to AoH sort & search by jiwei800715

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