Hi Monks! I have a question regarding the sort function. Can you confirm to me that, having an hash '%hash', and wanting to sort its keys by key, hence returning a list of sorted keys (assuming a monodimensional hash, with numeric sorting), i should use: 
sort { $a <=> $b } keys %hash

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and if i wanted to sort it by its values, again obtaining a list of sorted keys: 
sort { $hash{$a} <=> $hash{$b} } keys %hash

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so far, so good.
Now, i want to sort my hash, but by its values, i use "values", and, to sort by value, i should use: 
sort { $a <=> $b } values %hash

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and if i want to sort by keys i use 
sort { $hash{$a} <=> $hash{$b} } values %hash

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Am I right? If not, please tell me what's wrong.
If I am, there must be some problem in the last sort, because it does not return me a list of values sorted by keys, it just does simply nothing (at least, in my real code, not this fictional example).

thanks in advance,
larss

In reply to Sort: By keys, values, and their returning values. by larsss31

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