I am relatively new to Perl. Here is the line of code that I have written.It returns key value pairs that I use for further processing. However, I want it to return the pairs in a sorted list (sorted by the keys)

while(($key, $value) = each %hash)
{
...
}

Is there any way in which I can sort the hash within this line or separately before executing this line of code.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

The key will be stored in $_ and the value in $hash{$_}

http://www.perldoc.com/...6/pod/func/sort.html

Thanks very much, worked like a charm. Also, thanks for the link. Looks very helpful.

Oops make sure you remove the $ infront of that second lc - typo