in reply to Trouble sorting a nested HOH

If I understand corectly, you have effectively got a rec for each IP/Sock, with various bits of info attached to each one.
In a similar situation, I converted total hash to an array of anonymous hashrefs (1 arr element for each 'rec'), then you can easily sort on any (sub)field eg:

    for $sort_rec ( sort { $a->{'day_num'} <=> $b->{'day_num'}
                                            ||
                           $a->{'sti'}     <=> $b->{'sti'}
                                            ||
                           $a->{'bnum'}    cmp $b->{'bnum'}
                                            ||
                           $a->{'pos'}     <=> $b->{'pos'}
                         }
                         @offset_recs

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HTH
Cheers
Chris

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Re^2: Trouble sorting a nested HOH
by mielstogo (Initiate) on Nov 28, 2007 at 21:12 UTC
    Exactly the "pointer" I needed! Thanks for the input! An array of anonymous hashrefs will work perfectly with my row oriented presentation.

    This will also lend itself to my -graph option which uses GD::Graph to plot the data, once in the array of anon hash refs I can easily clip the outlier averages to make a decent bar graph (and show the outliers on their own graph if need be).

    Thanks!
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