Gunwant Singh wrote: > Hi all, > > I really appreciate all you guys there for the help you've provided to > me in the past. > So here I am again with a Question. > > I have a file with the following entries: > > 1:17 > 4:3 > 4:11 > 4:13 > 11:16 > 12:10 > 13:2 > 19:5 > 20:7 > 26:12 > 28:4 > 33:15 > 33:17 > 35:9 > 36:1 > 42:14 > 43:6 > 44:8 > 46:0.. and so on > > You will see that the left column is sorted. However the right one isn't. > What I want to do is to sort the right one but the corresponding values > should remain the same. > Notice the repeated values too. > Any thoughts?
I think you mean you want to sort by the second field instead of the first one? The code below should suit your purpose. HTH, Rob use strict; use warnings; my @list = qw( 1:17 4:3 4:11 4:13 11:16 12:10 13:2 19:5 20:7 26:12 28:4 33:15 33:17 35:9 36:1 42:14 43:6 44:8 46:0 ); my @sorted = sort { my @a = split /:/, $a; my @b = split /:/, $b; $a[1] <=> $b[1]; } @list; print "$_\n" foreach @sorted; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/