Thanks for the responses! Actually by just saying my @home each time through the loop, I was able to create an array of seperate references. But now that that is working, why am I having trouble sorting the array?

I have an array of array references, which I want to be sorted by the second element of the referenced array. 
    foreach my $sort (@sorted){
           print "<h1>$sort->[2]</h1>";
      }

    # sort the array of arrays by price
    @sorted = sort {$main::a->[2] <=> $main::b->[2]} @sorted;

foreach my $sort (@sorted){
           print "<h1>$sort->[2]</h1>";
      }

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With this code, the numbers are printed out as follows.

Before Sorting
4,900 1,900 1,333,987

After sorting
1,900 1,333,987 4,900

Those don't seem to be in ascending order to me! Any help is appreciated.

In reply to Re: help with array of arrays by emilford
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