Re: Re: Answer: How do I order a hash for use as a %label list in cgi.pm?

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Re: Re: Re: Answer: How do I order a hash for use as a %label list in cgi.pm? by filmo (Scribe) on Mar 22, 2001 at 05:20 UTC
Thanks, definity one of those "duh" things that seems so obvious after you hear the right answer. But, what if the values of the list are some unique randomly generated user id such as "9322042" and the Labels are supposed to be "Arnold", "Bob", "Clark", etc. How does one get the labels that appear in the menu to be alphabetical even thought the values are not similarly ordered. -- Filmo the Klown	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Answer: How do I order a hash for use as a %label list in cgi.pm? by chipmunk (Parson) on Mar 22, 2001 at 10:23 UTC
Sort the keys by comparing the values: `my @values = sort { $labels{$a} cmp $labels{$b} } keys %labels;`	[reply] [d/l]