Sorting an array of hashes

From: Chris Mortimore (CMORTIMR_at_graceland.edu)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:18:57 -0500
To: <beginners@perl.org>

I want to sort an AoH. Not each hash by its keys, but the array by the
value of one of the keys in each hash.
I know how to sort a simple array.
I know how to sort a hash by the keys.
Could someone kindly point me to the documentation on sorting arrays of
hashes?
 
Thank you!
Chris.
 
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