Re^2: How can I group lines in a file?

[zwon]

Just want to note that you can get the same order if you sort by name length or by first value ;)

use strict;
use warnings;

my %res;
while (<DATA>) {
    my ( $name, $weight ) = split /\s+/;
    push @{ $res{$name} }, $weight;
}
for ( sort { length($a) cmp length($b) } keys %res ) {
    print "$_ ", join( ",", @{ $res{$_} } ), "\n";
}
for ( sort { $res{$a}->[0] <=> $res{$b}->[0] } keys %res ) {
    print "$_ ", join( ",", @{ $res{$_} } ), "\n";
}

__DATA__
jim  14
john 23
ernest 38
matilda 43
jim 34
ernest 27
john 44
matilda 22