Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:40:08 GMT
From: "Irfan Baig" <irfan@abstractedge.com>
Subject: how to sort array of similar hashes by one of the hash keys?
Message-Id: <20010626.113916.1096689772.29810@irf.local>

I've split data from a flatfile into hashes in an array, @game, all of
which have keys 'name', 'score' and 'date'.

@game = ();
for ($i=0; $i<=$#scores; $i++){ 
	($game[$i]{'name'},$game[$i]{'score'},$game[$i]{'date'}) = split(/,/, $data[$i]);
}

I'm now trying to sort the array by comparing the values of the 'score' elements
in each array's hash. Is this possible? I've tried some combinations such
as:

@sorted_game = sort{ $game[$a]{'score'} <=> $game[$b]{'score'} } @game;

but no luck. Can someone help me out?