Perl: Sort A Hash?

[Creedyou]

I need to sort a hash by its key. I can't get this to work because I can't figure out how to keep the hash's values and keys together. What I was trying to do was extract the keys to an array using keys %hash, but then I don't know how to match the keys with its value.

 

[notfred]

uh, did you think to try :

$hash{$array[$iterator]}

 

[Creedyou]

i am not sure what you are trying to do. are u saying make an array of each hash key and value as 1 element in an array?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Creedyou
i am not sure what you are trying to do. are u saying make an array of each hash key and value as 1 element in an array?

# This is what you tried before, right?
@array = keys %hash;
@array = sort @array;

# But you didn't know how to get the values back from the keys, so I suggested:
for(my $i =0; $i < @array;$i++){
print $hash{$array[$i]}
}