$i = 0; open(DATA,"text.txt"); foreach $line () { @site1 = split " ", $line; $master[$i] = "$site1[0], $site1[1]"; } sort @master; print "1. $master[0]"; print "2. $master[1]"; print "3. $master[2]"; print "4. $master[3]"; print "5. $master[4]";