dear Monks A newbie question: I have a script that modifies files in a dir. Now I would like to sort lines within each of those files in ascending numerical. Each line contains something like the follwing:
t=1920
I would like to order the lines by this content. My script reads thus: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -i.bak -w

use strict;
####Script to perform Inline editing of files#####
####Creates a .bak file with the contents of original file###

my$dir='testSNL';
my@files;

opendir(DIR, $dir) or die "Can't Open DIR\n";
while(my$file=readdir DIR){
push @files, "$dir/$file" unless -d "$dir/$file";
}
closedir DIR;

{
local @ARGV=@files;
while(<>){

s/A t=\d*/A/g;
't=\d*' <=>'t=\d*';
print
}
}

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I get an error saying t=\\d* isnt numeric, Im doing something stupid, what? Thanks for any help Jm

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