This reply does not solve OP's problem, but... A bit of white space would have been much appreciated in the first line of btree() (which assigns TONS of variables) and the $pcode assignment. Something like... 

sub btree
{ #  I personally would much prefer hash reference(s) here
  my ( $disk , $workdir , $outFileName
      , $sep
      , $keyMap_aref
      , $verbose
      , $infile_aref , $indir , $outdir
      , $splitSize
      , $keyPos_aref , $outCol_aref
      ) = @_ ;

  ...

  #  No need for "$pcode" & later "eval $pcode"
  #  Use "$parse->($line)" as you already have
  my $parse =
    make_parse_code( $sep , $splitSize , $keyPos_aref );

  ...
}

sub make_parse_code
{ my ($sep , $size , $items) = @_;
  return
    sub
    { my ($line) = @_;
      join $sep
        , ( (split /$sep/ , $line , $size)[@$items] );
    };
}

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...adjust to your liking. Well, lack of white space was bugging me much, so i adjusted the code; i am sure others [cw]ould point out other improvements/suggestions.

In reply to Re: perl sort versus Unix sort by parv
in thread perl sort versus Unix sort by Anonymous Monk

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