SPUG: Another stupid question, hash sorting

[Thomas Whitney]

It depends how your hash is set up.

is it:
   $score = $hash{$name}

or
   $score = $hash{$name}{score}

or
  $name = $array[$index]{name}
  $score = $array[$index]{score}

etc...


Thanks
Tom


Peter Darley wrote:

> Friends,
>         I've got another stupid question that I'm hoping someone can answer for me.
> I want to sort a hash on two values, and have been unsuccessful in my search
> of the web for info on how to do it.
>         Specifically I have a hash containing {Score} and {Name} values, and I want
> to primarily sort on score, and sort on name where the score is the same.  I
> can do this with a two step sort, but I figured that Perl was probably cool
> enough to provide a simple way of tackling this.
> Thanks,
> Peter Darley
>
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