Update: You have a terrible error that's one of my hobbyhorses, and I missed it on the first cut :( $a is sacred to sort

You're assigning a whole new %list each time around.

while(<TEST>){
    chomp;
    /(\w+)\s+(\w+)/;
    print "$i : $2\,$1\n";
    $list{$i} = [$1,$2];
    $i+=1;
}
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Also, when you want the values, you need to should dereference:

foreach my $c (sort keys %list) {
    print "$list{$c}->[1],$list{$c}->[0]$/"
}
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That should fix things up.

Update: Softened statement on dereferencing and corrected horrible error mixing $a as temporary with sort.

Update 2: Here's a line to sort and print all at once

print map {"$_->[1], $_->[0]$/"} sort {lc($a->[1]) cmp lc($b->[1])} va
+lues %list;
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You might also consider split instead of re+backreferences for parsing your data, more efficient. Edit, corrected typo of dropped paren

After Compline,
Zaxo

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