#!/usr/bin/perl   

use 5.8.0;
use strict;
use warnings 'all';
use sort 'stable';

my ($first, $second) = @ARGV;
 
open my $fh => $first  or die "open first: $!\n";
chomp (my @words = <$fh>);
close $fh;

my $c = 0;
my %words = map {$_ => ++ $c} @words;
    
open my $sh => $second or die "open second: $!\n";
my @info;
while (<$sh>) {
    chomp;
    push @info => [split /\|/];
}
close $sh;

@info = sort {$words {$a -> [0]} <=> $words {$b -> [0]}} @info;

print "@$_\n" for @info;
__END__

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Give the names of the two files as arguments. And if there's a lot of data, you may want to turn the sort into a GRT.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Sorting with perl by Abigail-II
in thread Sorting with perl by Anonymous Monk

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