Hello,

I am new'ish to Perl and have taken on a project to create some scripts to monitor some Windows Servers.

The piece that is giving me a lot of trouble is sorting my hash of hashes I am generating as I go through a list of machines.

This is my snippet that tacks a hash onto the hash for each machine that meets my criteria, 97% full volume. 
if (( $pctused ) > 97 ) {
     $srvlist{ $srvname }  = {
             pctused => "$pctused",
             volname => "$volname",
             volfree => "$volfree"
     };
}

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This all works fine. Each machine that meets this criteria is tacked onto the hash. However I am at a complete loss for how to sort by the value of one of these keys when I generate my report. I have tinkered with the various sort methods I have found in my google search and no joy.

While I'm sure there is a better way to do it than I have here... My question is how can I sort by key value in a hash of hashes and "rebuild" it as a sorted list for say ... sticking it into an HTML table?


Thanks in advance

In reply to Sort Hash of Hashes by key value by jgn

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