my $whatever; my @sortedarray; open(SORTED, ">sorted.txt"); open(TOSORT, "tosort.txt"); while ($whatever = ) { chomp $whatever; my @sortedarray = split(/\|/, $whatever); #@sortedarray = sort($sortedarray[1]); print SORTED "$sortedarray[0]|$sortedarray[1]\n"; } close(TOSORT); close(SORTED); print "done!"; exit;