How to sort hash entries by keys when formatting Perl source code?

Question

Looking at perltidy I don't see such an option. Is there any tool which does this?

Answer 1

I prefer to sort my keys "logically". Fields like 'name' and 'id' come first, sometimes something like 'long name' or 'description' after name.

If you need to do something like this, you could use a editor with a shell facility to

1. pass the data into a perl program
2. eval the selection
3. use Data::Dumper and set $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;
4. And then do Data::Dumper->Dump( [ $eval_hash ], [ '$VAR1' ] )
5. Strip off the front part s/\A[^=]+=\s+//
6. Replace the selection with the output