Thanks Kabel, I tried this but it doesnt sort. I need a split somewhere but I am not sure where to place it. The data is read in by a function that places one line into [0] and the next line is in [1]. I placed <INPUT> where the function is for simplicity for the posting.

@sorted = sort { $a->[2] <=> $b->[2] } <INPUT>;            
chomp (@sorted);

foreach (@sorted){
   print;
   print "\n";
}
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Edited: ~Mon Sep 23 15:53:50 2002 (GMT) by footpad: Replaced prose-based [ ] and < > characters with HTML entities for proper rendering.