use strict; use warnings; my @data; while () { chomp; push @data, [ split /\s+|,/ ]; } @data = sort { $a->[0] cmp $b->[0] || $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } @data; my %order; my $last_f; my $last_x; for (@data) { if (!defined($last_f) || $last_f ne $_->[0]) { $order{$_->[0]}{$_->[1]} = +1; $last_f = $_->[0]; $last_x = $_->[1]; } if ($last_x ne $_->[1]) { $order{$_->[0]}{$_->[1]} = -$order{$last_f}{$last_x}; $last_x = $_->[1]; } } @data = sort { $a->[0] cmp $b->[0] || $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] || ( $a->[2] <=> $b->[2] ) * $order{$a->[0]}{$a->[1]} } @data; print("$_->[0] $_->[1],$_->[2]\n") for @data; __DATA__ ... #### use strict; use warnings; my %data; while () { chomp; my ($f,$x,$y) = split /\s+|,/; push @{ $data{$f}{$x} }, $y; } my @data; my $order = +1; for my $f (sort keys %data) { my $xs = $data{$f}; for my $x (sort { $a <=> $b } keys %$xs) { my $ys = $xs->{$x}; push @data, map [ $f, $x, $_ ], sort { $order * ( $a <=> $b ) } @$ys; $order *= -1; } } print("$_->[0] $_->[1],$_->[2]\n") for @data; __DATA__ ... #### aaa 1,2 aaa 2,1 aaa 2,3 aaa 3,1 aaa 3,2 aaa 4,1 aaa 4,5 bbb 2,2 bbb 2,5 bbb 2,1 bbb 4,3 bbb 4,6 bbb 4,1 bbb 4,2 ccc 3,3 ccc 3,6 ccc 1,3 ccc 1,1 ccc 6,4 ccc 6,6 ccc 2,2 ccc 2,4