Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

If I have an array of hashes and I want to sort the array based on the (alphabetic) value of one of the hash keys, what's the nicest way to do it?

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Re: sort array of hashes
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 18, 2008 at 17:40 UTC 
    @AoH = sort { $a->{key} cmp $b->{key} } @AoH;

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      Super Search is your friend: How to sort by the key value of an Array of Hash structure?

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