I tried the same logic to get my job done as found somewhere but used Text::CSV. Thanks for help Merijn!! 
my @sorted = sort {$a->[30] <=> $b->[30] || $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] || $a-
+>[1] <=> $b->[1]} @$ref;

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Moreover, I'm stuck with other things now: i.) The script runs on my local machinewindows, strawberry perl, but fails on linux servers; looks like the files I'm getting are created on windows. Error captured is:: Line could not be parsed: Inappropriate ioctl for device2032EIF - CR char inside unquoted, not part of EOL12645948 which is because of Carriage return, can't see that with 'vi'. How can I handle this, any help?

ii.) And yes file has inner double quotes in fields as given above; so get below error while executing this; can we handle this?: Line could not be parsed: Inappropriate ioctl for device2032EIF - CR char inside unquoted, not part of EOL12645948 at ./max_sort.pl line 69, <$data> line 60. # CSV_XS ERROR: 2023 - EIQ - QUO character not allowed 

my ($file, $sfile) = @_;
        my $csv = Text::CSV->new({binary => 1, decode_utf8 => 1, auto_
+diag => 1, allow_loose_quotes => 1});
        open(my $data, '<:encoding(utf8)', $file) or die "Could not op
+en '$file' $!\n";
        my $i = 0;
        my $ref;
        my $lineCt = 1;
        my @header;
        while(my $line = <$data>){
                chomp $line;
                if($lineCt == 1){
                        @header = $csv->fields();
                        $lineCt++;
                        next;
                }
                if($csv->parse($line)){
                        my @fields = $csv->fields();
                        $ref->[$i] = \@fields;
                        $i = $i+1;
                }
                else{
                        warn "Line could not be parsed: $!",$csv->erro
+r_diag;
                }
        }

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In reply to Re^2: Need to sort comma delimited, double quoted file by CSharma
in thread Need to sort comma delimited, double quoted file by CSharma

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