Re: Returning the first key in a hash...

[James Edward Gray II]

On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 07:30  AM, Hamish Whittal wrote:

I have a hash that looks like:

{ number => {somethings in here} }

Now I need to get at number, not what it references.
If I understand correctly, you're trying to get the lowest number hash 
key.  That we can do.  Try:

my $lowest = (sort { $a <=> $b } keys %hash)[0]

Hope that helps.

James

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