Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:08:36 GMT
From: "Irfan Baig" <irfan@abstractedge.com>
Subject: Re: how to sort array of similar hashes by one of the hash keys?
Message-Id: <20010626.120746.1308044878.29810@irf.local>

Never mind, I found out - if anyone needs to know :

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

In article <20010626.113916.1096689772.29810@irf.local>, "Irfan Baig"
<irfan@abstractedge.com> wrote:

> 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?