Sorting Arrays of Hashes??

Well like the subject says, i'm stumped trying to sort an array of hashes.

I've got an array full of references to hashes, and I can't figure out how to sort it.

Any suggestions?

I am a beginner at perl but maybe this helps

print join ('', sort @hashes);

i cant garanty it works but i juse it in one of my scripts to print
so edit it and maybe it work

Well, you could just sort the array based on the referenced hashes (memory addresses), but that's probably not what you want.

What you have to do is write your own sort routine. For example:

@Info = (
{ fname => "John", lname => "Doe", age => 34 },
{ fname => "Jane", lname => "Dae", age => 32 },
{ fname => "Michael", lname => "Richards", age => 22}
);

# Print out each persons information, sort it by their last name

foreach $user_hash ( sort { $a->{lname} cmp $b->{lname} } @Info) {
print "Name: $user_hash->{fname} $user_hash->{lname}\n";
print "Age: $user_hash->{age}\n";
}


Look up the documents on sort if this doesn't make sense.

Hope this helps.

- Amir