On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Chris Mortimore wrote:
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > Chris Mortimore wrote: >> I want to sort an AoH. Not each hash by its keys, but the array by >> the value of one of the keys in each hash. > > The value of one of the keys? If you don't know *which* key in > respective hash, this appears to be pretty tricky...
Of course I know _which_ key. Each hash has a key "date_tm", I want to sort all the hashes in the array by their date_tm value which is in the format: yyyymmdddhhmm.
Don't you think it might have been constructive to mention this the first time around?
Can you please give a fuller description of [a] what this data structure really looks like -- a Data::Dumper dump would be good -- and [b] how you want to rearrange the contents of this structure?
-- Chris Devers
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