use strict; use Encode qw(encode decode); ### Define the sort key here ### # Sorts in ascending order. sub key1 { ( substr( $a, 3, 17 )) cmp ( substr( $b, 3, 17 )); } # Sorts descending order. sub key2 { ( substr( $b, 20, 2 )) cmp ( substr( $a, 20, 2 )); } # ### Sort processing starts ### my @infile = <>; # Reads file ### Multiple sort keys can be defined and sorted in the order of t +he key my @sorted = map { decode('cp1047', $_) } sort { key1 || key2 } (m +ap { encode('cp1047', $_) } @infile); print @sorted;