in reply to Perl Sorting +

Without any code or data to work with it's obviously very difficult to provide much help.

One possible solution might be to package your data into hashrefs, something like:

{ choice => $choice_data, votes => $number_of_votes, ... }

Add those hashrefs into your array then sort on the number of votes - something like this:

my @sorted = sort { $a->{votes} <=> $b->{votes} } @unsorted;

The @sorted array retains all the original information but now it's ordered.

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-- Ken

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Re^2: Perl Sorting +
by Bronston (Novice) on Dec 04, 2010 at 12:29 UTC
    I think I got it figured out. I was more or less unaware of hashes, but that was exactly the direction I needed to go. Thank you very much. B