Heres yet another solution... As for the others the behaviour for when your file contains a different set of digits is only assumed to be correct. Basically it outputs inorder sequences of the input file until all of the numbers in the input file have been exhausted.

my @array;
while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    $array[$_]++;
}
my $found_flag=1;
while ($found_flag) {
    $found_flag=0;
    for my $o (0..$#array) {
      if ($array[$o])  {
          print $o,"\n";
          $array[$o]--;
          $found_flag=1;
      }
    }
}

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Yves / DeMerphq
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In reply to Re: Text Manipulation Quickie by demerphq
in thread Text Manipulation Quickie by johnirl

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