I'm getting myself increasingly confused at how to go about this, so some assistance is greatly appreciated.

One piece of my latest program populates an array of hashes, each hash has multiple key/value pairs.

What I want to do after populating the array is:
- sort the array based on the value of 1 key
- if 2 or more elements have the same value of that key (values will be numeric), sort just those elements by the value of a 2nd key (without altering the sort order of the other elements in the array)

Sorting the array by the value of key is easy enough, but how to sort only some elements conditionally has me all kerfuffled. I've been reading up on Schwartzian Transforms, which I'm still not sure are applicable here.

Any advice (preferably with code samples) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

In reply to sorting array of hashes using multiple keys conditionally by mabman2

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