SPUG: Sorting hash question

[Damian Conway]

Peter Darley wrote:

>         The variable $Item is actually a reference in a scalar, rather than a hash,
> so I need to re-reference it to $$Item{Children} before dereferencing it to
> %{$$Item{Children}}, if that makes any sense.  If I don't need to do this, I
> would be ecstatic, but it has been the only way I could figure out to do it.
> Any suggestions?

You'll still need to dereference, but it's better written as:

	%{$Item->{Children}}

Which would make my suggestion:

	for $SubItem (@{$Item->{Children}}{sort {$a<=>$b} keys %{$Item->{Children}}}) {
	    ...
	}

Damian

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