On 22 April 2010 01:26, Norman Gaywood <ngaywood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. That should be $HoH{$sorted}{uid} -- Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia ngaywood@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 3337 http://mcs.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines