Background
I am trying to do something similar with a more complicated problem so here is an example similar to what i am trying to achieve.
I am pulling some data from a table and trying to lay it out in an particular order. To be spacific as you can see in my example sql(prepare) statement, i am pulling in info about a school and ordering it by minor.
here is a sample of the code 

$SQL_report = "select distinct 
student_id, student_name, student_address, student_gpa, college
from
SCHOOL
where MINOR = 'CS'
ORDER BY student_id";

$sth->execute;

while (@row = $sth_report->fetchrow_array) { 
$student_id      = (defined $row[0]) ? $row[0] : '';
$student_name      = (defined $row[1]) ? $row[1] : '';
$student_address  = (defined $row[2]) ? $row[2] : '';
$student_gpa      = (defined $row[3]) ? $row[3] : '';
$college      = (defined $row[4]) ? $row[4] : '';


## Make our html look better if no data.
$student_id      = " " if ($student_id eq "");
$student_name    = " " if ($student_name eq "");
$student_major     = " " if ($student_address eq "");
$student_gpa     = " " if ($student_gpa eq "");
$college     = " " if ($college eq "");

} # End of while

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Problem
Everything is working just fine on the DBI side and i can get data which at present looks something like this. 

id, name, addrss, major, gpa, college 
id, name, addrss, major, gpa, college 
id, name, addrss, major, gpa, college 
id, name, addrss, major, gpa, college

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and is ordered too by id_number. which is exactly what it should be like, BUT
I need to somehow sort this incomming data by college. Example: 
BUSINESS SCHOOL

id, name, address, gpa 
id, name, address, gpa 
id, name, address, gpa 

ENGINEERING

id, name, address, gpa
id, name, address, gpa 
id, name, address, gpa 

NURSING

id, name, address, gpa 
id, name, address, gpa 
id, name, address, gpa

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I have tried to use a few different ways using loops but i cant seem to get it to come out right. As always any input will go a long ways....
Thanks

Edit by dws for tag cleanup

In reply to Sorting data pulled in by DBI by data67

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