Hello all, I'm trying to sort on a nested key value. Given a data structure that looks like this: 
$data = { Elements => {
    AlphaKey => {
        Name => 'Foo',
        Priority => 2,
        OtherVal => 'randomthings'
    },
    BetaKey => {
        Name => 'Bar',
        Priority => 1,
        OtherVal => 'morerandomthings'
    },
}};

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I want to process them in a sorted order based on the priority value. I'm trying to just turn the hashref into an arrayref, so that it winds up looking like: 
$sorted = [
    {
        Name => 'Bar',
        Priority => 1
        OtherVal => 'morerandomthings'
    },
    {
        Name => 'Foo',
        Priority => 2,
        OtherVal => 'randomthings'
    },
];

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It's easy enough to get a sorted list of priorities: 
my @pri = sort { $a <=> $b } map { $data->{Elements}{$_}->{priority} }
+ keys %{$data->{Elements}};

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I'm lost on how to build an arrayref-based structure from there. I'm not even sure i'm going down the right path now that I'm typing it out. Thoughts?

In reply to Sorting on Nested Element by dsb

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