I apologize in advance for the obvious display of ignorance in this question. I have searched for a previously posted solution to this problem but have yet to find one that works. I have a cgi script that opens a log file and assigns each ~ delimited value to a variable. It then prints each line of the log file in a particular format in html. One of the variables in the logfile is date. I'm wondering if there is a way this script can open the file, sort by the $date variable, and print the log line item with the most current date first. If it has to rewrite the logfile, that is fine. I have read several comments about creating a temp file and rewriting it, etc., but would really like to find a way to sort by date prior to printing the html. Below is a line from the log file and a copy of the code that opens the log file and prints: The Dow Dips to All-Time Low ~ http://www.yahoofinance.com ~ Yahoo Finance ~ 09/15/01 ~ The Dow Jones dipped to an all-time.... 
  $from = "news.dat";

open(FILE, "$from") || die "Can't open $from!\n";
while (<FILE>) {
   chop;
   ($title,$url,$site,$date,$description) = split(/~/,$_);
    
    print "<table width=400><tr>";
    print "<td><a href=\"$url\"><font color=blue>$title</font></a><br>
+<font color=black>$date,$site<br>$description</font></td>";
    print "</tr></table><br>";

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In reply to Sorting a logfile by date to print to html by PerlGoblin

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