in reply to Sorting colon-delimited records

You can store your records in a hash (just as Beatnik pointed out :) using each record's second field for the key.
use strict; use Data::Dumper; my @a = qw(foo:baz:faz foo:bar:fuss); my %h= map{ (split(/\:/,$_))[1] => $_ } @a; print Dumper(\%h); # to force a '\n' printed after each array element. $,="\n"; print @h{keys %h};
Getting them inside a hash will assure that your records are sorted by the second field in alphabetical order. Here's the output:
$VAR1 = { 'bar' => 'foo:bar:fuss', 'baz' => 'foo:baz:faz' }; foo:bar:fuss foo:baz:faz


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