Your code is incomprehensible to me. Looks like a simple sort. Here is how to do it....Only uses column 2, to use other columns as part of the sort is not that hard, but here, not needed? Why don't your use Excel or other spreadsheet and not worry about Perl? 
#!usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my @lines;

while (<DATA>)
{
   push @lines,$_;
}

@lines = sort by_col2 @lines;
print @lines;

sub by_col2
{
    my ($A_col2) = (split ' ', $a)[1];
    my ($B_col2) = (split ' ', $b)[1];
         $A_col2 cmp $B_col2;
}

=prints
912796HD4       Bill    4-Week  2016-01-26      2016-01-28      2016-0
+2-25      99.977056       NULL
912796HD4       Bill    4-Week  2016-01-26      2016-01-28      2016-0
+2-25      99.977056       NULL
912810RS9       Bond    30-Year 2016-05-12      2016-05-16      2046-0
+5-15      97.619462       2.500000
912810RQ3       Bond    29-Year 2016-04-14      2016-04-15      2046-0
+2-15      98.011430       2.500000
912828Q86       Note    1-Year  2016-05-25      2016-05-27      2018-0
+4-30      100.003850      NULL
912828N71       Note    9-Year  2016-05-19      2016-05-31      2026-0
+1-15      103.533587      0.625000
=cut


__DATA__
912828Q86       Note    1-Year  2016-05-25      2016-05-27      2018-0
+4-30      100.003850      NULL
912796HD4       Bill    4-Week  2016-01-26      2016-01-28      2016-0
+2-25      99.977056       NULL
912810RS9       Bond    30-Year 2016-05-12      2016-05-16      2046-0
+5-15      97.619462       2.500000
912810RQ3       Bond    29-Year 2016-04-14      2016-04-15      2046-0
+2-15      98.011430       2.500000
912796HD4       Bill    4-Week  2016-01-26      2016-01-28      2016-0
+2-25      99.977056       NULL
912828N71       Note    9-Year  2016-05-19      2016-05-31      2026-0
+1-15      103.533587      0.625000

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In reply to Re: File content sorting based on type by Marshall
in thread File content sorting based on type by perlmad

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