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There are many ways to do this trick, but they all depend on pulling out the sort key (in this case the second column). A simple way for small quantites of data is to use a hash:

use strict; use warnings; my %data; while (<DATA>) { my $key = /^\d+\s+(\d+)/ ? $1 : next; $data{$key} = $_; } print $data{$_} for sort keys %data; __DATA__ 77876 8543 CA84985 54E 77873 8003 CA84985 54E 77875 7725 CA84985 54E 77872 8511 CA84985 54E 77873 8123 CA84985 54E 77822 9908 CA84985 54E 77819 8503 CA84985 54E 77826 8040 CA84985 54E 77822 7874 CA84985 54E 77884 8543 CA84985 54E 77809 7211 CA84985 54E

Prints:

77809 7211 CA84985 54E 77875 7725 CA84985 54E 77822 7874 CA84985 54E 77873 8003 CA84985 54E 77826 8040 CA84985 54E 77873 8123 CA84985 54E 77819 8503 CA84985 54E 77872 8511 CA84985 54E 77884 8543 CA84985 54E 77822 9908 CA84985 54E

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In reply to Re: Sorting a text file by GrandFather
in thread Sorting a text file by rsriram

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