I think it is breaking because you are printing every time you read in three lines, not every time you get three lines that you actually parse.

In the first three lines, you only parse the first one. At that point your array contains three pieces of information, ( ["llp", 1], ["Up", 5], [0, 6] ), the first time you print. It sorts them properly; you just don't have all the data yet. I suspect you are missing an else { next } in that block of elsifs.

That said, I feel compelled to tell you that your code is horrid. If I knew how to say it nicely, I would. If I was expected to maintain that, I would not hesitate to write it over again from scratch, all the while cursing your name. Frankly, I don't even know where to tell you to begin improving it. I think you should just scrap what you have and rethink your approach. You are almost certainly better off just parsing all of the data into a single data structure and then producing your report afterwards.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re: Array insertion problem by sauoq
in thread Array insertion problem by kirk123

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