I have a file which is tab delimited(a hit from a DB). I would like to first store say the first and tenth item on each(row) as well as the entire row in a hash. And then build an array of hashes from 2nd,3rd,...... rows respectively. I would then sort each of the rows by score and ID(which are the first and 10th elements of each row) and print the row with the best score.

I have tried this out and it seems I was just able to pick only one row:

   my @CHIMP = <CBLAT>;#CBLAT hold the file to be processed</p>
                my %hITS;
                my $score;
                my @bestHITS;
                if(!@CHIMP){</p>
                my $nm = "no_match";
                 next}
                my $cblast = shift @CHIMP;#process blat output lines(r
+ows)</p>
                my @row = split(/\t/,$cblast);</p>
                unshift @{$hITS{$score}},{MATCH=>$row[0],qID=>$row[9],
+cLINE=>$cblast};#keep score,query id and whole lines in hash</p>
                @{$hITS{$score}} = sort {$b->{MATCH} <=> $a->{MATCH} |
+| $a->{qID} cmp $b->{qID}} </p>@{$hITS{$score}};#sort by match score/
+query ID</p>
                        foreach my $key (@{$hITS{$score}}){
                        my $hits = $key->{cLINE};

                        push @bestHITS, $hits;#keep sorted lines in ar
+ray
                        last;}

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my program seem to be processing only the first row. I need hints/snippets!

In reply to Building an array of hashes, and then sorting keys with each hash by odegbon

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