#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $infile = 'orders.txt'; my $output = 'orders_today.txt'; open my $IN, '<', $infile or die "ERROR: Cannot open '$infile': $!"; my @out; while (<$IN>) { chomp; my @text = split /\t/; push @out, [@text]; } open my $OUT, '>', $output or die "Cannot open '$output': $!"; print {$OUT} map "@$_\n", sort { $a->[10] cmp $b->[10] } @out;