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You're right, I should've read more carefully.
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From: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: May 10, 2000 11:23
To: 'Andrew Bastien'; Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: sorting hash
Andrew Bastien wrote:
> In the spirit of TIMTOWDI, you can also do:
>
> sort {$thehash{$a} <=> $thehash{$b}} keys %thehash
This does something else -- it sorts the hash keys according to the values,
using numeric comparison. This only works correctly if all the values are
numbers. And besides, the original poster specified the hash be sorted by
key, not by value. Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Philip
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