Hi Monks,

I need to sort my list of hash values alphabetically. I know how to sort the keys already, but swapping my keys for values won't work here as some of the values are the same. My Hash list looks like this: 


my %hash = {

5328 =>    High
26191 => Very High
57491 => Low
4915 => High
1499 => Very High
999 => Low
4323 => Average
4314 => High

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The code I have to sort the list by keys looks like this: 

foreach my $key ( sort keys %hash )
{
  print "key: " . $key . " value: " . $hash{$key} . "\n";
}

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Scowered through some of the 'howto's' for this, but none seem to have any info on sorting when some values might be the same. A simple link would be great.

In reply to Sort Hash Values Alphabetically by danj35

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