First, please put your code in <c></c> tags.

I didn't test the code below, but it should do the trick. It probably isn't very efficient or elegant, but it does illustrate each logical step. I'm sure others will be able to do it with fewer lines of code.

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;

my %x = ('period' => "2010/05", 'type' => "voice", 'tcon' => "A,B", 'h
+con' => "Z,T,A" );

# extract out the value, which is a string
my $string = $x{'hcon'};

# split the string
my (@array) = split /,/,$string;

# sort the elements
my (@sorted) = sort @array;

# recreate string with sorted elements
my $new_string = join (",",@sorted);

# store back into the hash
$x{'hcon'} = $new_string;

print Dumper($x);

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In reply to Re: Sorting the hash by dasgar
in thread Sorting the hash by annem_jyothsna

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