in reply to Re^2: Complex conditional sort
in thread Complex conditional sort

Oops, I thought he wanted to group by quantity. To group by presence/absence (presence first), it's simplest to solidify the concept into values that can be compared with <=> or cmp. Let's pick zero for presence and one for absence (since zero comes before one).

my $pro_products = $products{Cat}{Pro}; sort { $pro_products->{$a}{Qua} ?0:1 <=> $pro_products->{$b}{Qua} ?0:1 || $a cmp $b } keys %$pro_products

Update: Down below, L~R picked "A" and "B" instead of 0 and 1. Same idea.