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Frankly speaking, your descending order based on z seems a quite random order: I really can't see which sorting algorithm you used to obtain x y z xyz 2 8 5 abc 1 4 3 from x y z abc 1 4 3 xyz 2 8 5

This quick-and-dirty (and ***untested***) snippet does a standard reverse sort: you can take it and adapt it for your needs.

use strict ;
use warnings ;

my $tempfile = "temp_file_name.txt" ;
my $outfile  = "/path/to/values" ;

open IN, $tempfile or die $! ;
open OUT, $outfile or die $! ;

while (<IN>) {
  chomp ;
  my ($name,@values) = split ;
  print OUT join(" ",$name,reverse sort @values),"\n" ;
}

close OUT ;
close IN ;

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Ciao!
--bronto

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# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->made($love) ;
}

In reply to Re: File Sorting by bronto
in thread File Sorting by rchou2

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