use warnings; use strict; open my $INF, "<", "look.txt" or die "cannot open"; my @look = <$INF>; close($INF); my @key = map { (split /\|/)[4] } @look; my @out = @look[sort { $key[$a] <=> $key[$b] } 0 .. @look - 1]; for my $line (@out) { my @fields = split /\|/, $line; print join(",", @fields[0 .. 4]), "\n"; } __END__