Thanks Tye for all your help :)
I need to ask you another question, b/c what you typed does work but, my <STDIN> is from a text file which contains multiple strings seperated by commas and I'm reading the number which I've initialized to be $start_bit_no. When I replace <STDIN> with $start_bit_no. I don't get the results. Here is the code:
foreach (@row1[$count1])
  {
  @column1 = split(/\,/,@row1[$count1]);
  $sat_name      = @column1[0];
  $meas_name     = @column1[1];
  $parent_meas   = @column1[2];
  $start_bit_no  = @column1[3];

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This is where $start_bit_no is initialized. Then I call a sub routine to sort what is in $start_bit_no. Which is the code you were first looking at. Why am I not seeing the output when I use your code?

2003-06-02 edit ybiC: <code> tags

In reply to Re: Re: Sorting numbers (not) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Sorting numbers by Anonymous Monk

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