[OT] Help with Perl Script

Norman Gaywood ngaywood at une.edu.au
Wed Apr 21 12:30:05 UTC 2010


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 '<=>'

Perhaps that is the problem?

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