in reply to Perl sort

You are calling sort twice, which makes little sense. Also, your code does not even compile.

Most likely you wanted something like:

my @sorted = map {$_->[0]} sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] || $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map {chomp;[$_,split(/\t/)]} <FILE>; print OUT "$_\n" for @sorted;