As mentioned in the chatterbox, you wanted to sort by the first element of the array rather than by the hash key. This example will work: 

use strict;
use warnings;

my %hash = (
            1    => [1, 'One'],
            2    => [2, 'Two'],
            3    => [3, 'Three'],
            4    => [4, 'Four'],
            5    => [5, 'Five'],
            6    => [6, 'Six'],
            12   => [12, 'Twelve'],
           );

# sort the hash numerically by the first element in each array
foreach my $key ( sort { $hash{$a}[0] <=> $hash{$b}[0] } keys %hash )
{
    print "Integer is: $key -- Alpha is: $hash{$key}[1]\n";
}

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Please also note that if you had warnings turned on you would have realized the second element in your arrays are barewords and need to be quoted.

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In reply to Re: Effective sort method? by bobf
in thread Effective sort method? by Elijah

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