You've been pointed to documentation which you appear not to have read. You been asked for information which you haven't supplied. Without doing these things, I don't know how you think we can help you.

I provided a link to sort. Here you'll find many examples including this basic one for sorting numerical data in descending order:

    # sort numerically descending
    @articles = sort {$b <=> $a} @files;
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Corion provided a link to DBI (in Re^3: Ranking MySQL Entries?). If you're unfamiliar with that module, look the "Simple Examples" section in that documentation.

Once you have your data, in whatever data structure you choose, you'll probably need a more complicated sort than the basic example shown above. Perhaps something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump;

my @unordered = (
    { id => 12, rownum => 1, rank => 27 },
    { id => 31, rownum => 3, rank => 72 },
    { id => 45, rownum => 5, rank => 54 },
);

my @ordered = sort { $b->{rank} <=> $a->{rank} } @unordered;

print 'Unordered:';
dd \@unordered;
print 'Ordered:';
dd \@ordered;
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Output:

Unordered:
[
  { id => 12, rank => 27, rownum => 1 },
  { id => 31, rank => 72, rownum => 3 },
  { id => 45, rank => 54, rownum => 5 },
]

Ordered:
[
  { id => 31, rank => 72, rownum => 3 },
  { id => 45, rank => 54, rownum => 5 },
  { id => 12, rank => 27, rownum => 1 },
]
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