On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 04:12:06PM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Norman Gaywood <ngaywood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:21:30AM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
> >> hashes. It's after this that I'm stuck, I'm struggling to order the
> >> hash of hashes by uid and then print the ordered list out? Can someone
> > [snip]
> >> foreach my $sorted ( sort { $HoH->{$a}{uid} cmp $HoH->{$b}{uid} } keys %HoH)
> >
> > cmp is a string comparison. You probably want to sort numerically on the
> > uid. So replace 'cmp' with '<=>'
> foreach my $sorted ( sort { $HoH{$a}->{"uid"} <=> $HoH{$b}->{"uid"} } keys %HoH)
> {
> print STDOUT "$HoH{$sorted}\n"
> }
> and all I get out is:
>
> perl sort.pl
> HASH(0x89de3d0)
> HASH(0x8a05d40)
[snip]
$HoH{$sorted} is a reference to a hash. $HoH{$a}{uid} (or in
long hand $HoH{$a}->{"uid"}) should print out the uid numbers.
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