Nick,

Thanks for your help. Would you (or someone else) be able to help me further?

I'm using BBEdit as my text editor. When I copied your code and made a few edits (see below, NB. the html character code is that shift-opt-5 character) my outputted text became everything in the "if" section. The program then popped open a Unix Script Log window and contained within it is everything from the "else" section. However, nothing in this Log output is sorted.

while (my $line = <Input>) {
    $line =~ s{(z0)}{&#64257;$1}g;
#     $line =~ s{(?<=^)\n\Z}{&#64257;\n}g;
    if ($line =~ /^&#64257;/) {       # line starts with a bracket
        if (@unsorted_input) {  # if array has entries
#             my @sorted = sort two_way_sort @unsorted_input;
            print @unsorted_input;
            undef @unsorted_input;
        }
        print {Output} $line;            # print the header line
    }
    else {                       # line is an entry line
        my @sorted = sort two_way_sort @unsorted_input;
        push @unsorted_input, $line;
    }
}


foreach my $line (@unsorted_input) {
    print Output $line;
}

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I'm not certain about what to do next.

In reply to Re^2: Use Perl's Sort to only sort certain lines in a file? by grahambuck
in thread Use Perl's Sort to only sort certain lines in a file? by grahambuck

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