Dear monks, Let me be clear with my question this time. I am new to perl and still managed to code many things in it. That shows how simple yet effective language perl is! I have a csv file with following contents. "Add workflow, Delete workflow",resource1,Sat 04/25/09,manager1 "Updateworkflow, Delete workflow",resource2,Wed 04/15/09,manager2 "Retrieve workflow, Delete workflow",resource3,Sat 04/25/09,manager3 "Add workflow, Delete workflow",resource4,Wed 03/25/09,manager4 "Add workflow",resource5,Tue 04/14/09,manager5 I need this csv file to be sorted and the sorted file should be like this: "Add workflow, Delete workflow",resource4,Wed 03/25/09,manager4 "Add workflow",resource5,Tue 04/14/09,manager5 "Updateworkflow, Delete workflow",resource2,Wed 04/15/09,manager2 "Add workflow, Delete workflow",resource1,Sat 04/25/09,manager1 "Retrieve workflow, Delete workflow",resource3,Sat 04/25/09,manager3 Can anyone help me accomplish this without using any modules? If it can't be done without using any modules, then pls let me know which module to use and how do we install it? I have perl 5.6.0 in my HP box. ~Manjunath Alcatel-Lucent