Re: Sort a hash of hashes by value in template toolkit

The sort (and nsort) methods are necessarily limited. You might be looking for the pairs method. See Template::Manual::VMethods.

If your sorting needs are at all complex you're going to have to pass it to some Perl to handle. Either a variable that's a subroutine, or a template plugin.

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Re^2: Sort a hash of hashes by value in template toolkit by dariusj (Sexton) on Nov 19, 2007 at 11:50 UTC
Gave up on doing it in template toolkit, solved the issue by having a perl method in the handler that returns a sorted array of arrays which can then be easily looped in the .tt file. An ugly solution, but it works.	[reply]
Re^3: Sort a hash of hashes by value in template toolkit by szodjo (Initiate) on Feb 28, 2008 at 20:03 UTC
I came across this issue as well. I was passing a hash of hashes to TT and used this method to sort it. Sample Hash: `%Orders = {}; $Orders{1}{NAME} = 'Bill'; $Orders{1}{STATUS} = 'Complete'; $Orders{2}{NAME} = 'John'; $Orders{3}{STATUS} = 'Pending';` [download] Sort the hash by key value (orderid) descending and output data from the nested hashes: `<table> <tr> <th>Order ID</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Status</th> </tr> [% sortedKEYS = Orders.nsort %] [% FOREACH skey IN sortedKEYS %] <tr> <td>[% skey %]</td> <td>[% Orders.$skey.NAME %]</td> <td>[% Orders.$skey.STATUS %]</td> </tr> [% END %] </table>` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]