It does make sense, and I'm usually in the same boat as other Monks... we prefer people do actual research and testing. The only reason I went all out is because I now code in Python, so the rare chance while at the office I get to visit PerlMonks I take the opportunity to do a bit of work with Perl :)

I'll leave it up to you how to sort and format (Google and perldoc are your friends). The numbers, if you checked my output, already does what you need. Again, your input was lacking, so depending on other situations, you'll have to edit the code to fit.

Cheers,

-stevieb

In reply to Re^3: total noob trying to format a phone list by stevieb
in thread trying to format a list by sonikd

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