I have found a few different ways, I have been doing my homework. I have implemented a couple different sorting algorithms to determine which one is the fastest given my problem. I also relize that there may be a way to sort vecs that is inherent in Perl that I am not aware of, for I am not a perl monk. Hence my posting. Does anyone know a way to sort a vec without converting it to an array. I apologize if this is confusing.