May I recommend the Schwartzian transform for your sort? (it looks extremely inefficient.)

map  { $_[0] }
sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] }
map  { [ $_, grabdataentry(\%hash, $_, 0) ] }
keys %hash;

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Anyway, it may not be a problem if you have fewer than (let's say) fifty keys, but after that it'll take quite a bit of cpu. Oh, and please don't copy the hash in the subroutine either:

sub grabdataentry
{
  my $href=shift;
  ...
  my @list=split /;/, $href->{$skey};

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By copying the hash to %dhash you're saving two whole keystrokes.

In reply to Re: hash ref package by Anonymous Monk
in thread hash ref package by yucani

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