Re: Sorting issues

[zeidrik]

If You insist on "sort" here is my way to do it:
for the database as

1 2 3 |10
a b c |20
e f g |100
x n f |1

the code

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my %H;
open(R,"database");
 map {/\|(\d+)/; $H{$1}=$_ if $1}<R>;
close(R);
 foreach (sort {$a<=>$b} keys %H){print $H{$_}}

does exactly:

x n f |1
1 2 3 |10
a b c |20
e f g |100

Enjoy...