Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 08:13:01 GMT
From: Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: how to sort array of similar hashes by one of the hash keys?
Message-Id: <i95jjtsgcr910trunre0ogbs1u6hbge8nh@4ax.com>

Irfan Baig wrote:

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

You're mixing two concepts. Or, you select an item by index, but then
you need to feed the indexes to the sort function (and getting a list of
indexes out), or you must assume that $a and $b are the $game[$i] items,
thus, hash references. So:

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

or

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

-- 
	Bart.