hello choroba, Thank you for replying, I have adjusted the coding to the following but it still does not work?, please help? 

my $infile="orders.txt";
my $output2 = 'orders_today.txt';

open (OUT, "+>$output2");

open (FILE, $infile) or die "ERROR: File does not exist\n";
for (<FILE>) 
{
  
    
    
my @text =();
@text = split /\t/,$_;
chomp @text;


push (@text, $text[0]);
push (@text, $text[1]);
push (@text,$text[2]);
push (@text,$text[3]);


{ $a->[10] cmp $b->[10] } 


    print map @$_
    
    
}

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