#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; while (my $line = ) { next if $line =~ /^\s*$/; #skip blank lines my ($label, @rest) = split ' ', $line; my @pairs; while (@rest) { my $first_num_thing = shift @rest; my $paren_thing = shift @rest; push @pairs, "$first_num_thing $paren_thing"; } @pairs = sort @pairs; #may need special sort?? foreach my $col (@pairs) { print "$label $col\n"; } } =prints 10GBE_ADDR1 R3629.2 (ANALOG:107) 10GBE_ADDR1 R3633.1 (ANALOG:107) 10GBE_ADDR1 U212.19 (INPUT:107) =cut __DATA__ 10GBE_ADDR1 R3629.2 (ANALOG:107) R3633.1 (ANALOG:107) U212.19 (INPUT:107) #### #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; while (my $line = ) { next if $line =~ /^\s*$/; #skip blank lines my ($label, $rest) = split ' ', $line,2; (my @pairs) = $rest =~ /(\S+\s+\S+)/g; #called "match global"; @pairs = sort @pairs; foreach my $col (@pairs) { print "$label $col\n"; } } =prints 10GBE_ADDR1 R3629.2 (ANALOG:107) 10GBE_ADDR1 R3633.1 (ANALOG:107) 10GBE_ADDR1 U212.19 (INPUT:107) =cut __DATA__ 10GBE_ADDR1 R3629.2 (ANALOG:107) R3633.1 (ANALOG:107) U212.19 (INPUT:107)