I am expecting each row in the array to contain "$status\t$reference\t$project\t$created\n"

The array has 96 rows so far and each row has four elements tab separated.

Here I am slurping the entire file into an array. 
open (LINKS, "$linksQuery") || die ("Can't open $linksQuery: $!");
my @links = <LINKS>;
close (LINKS);

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I take it one step further by separating this one array into two arrays based off of $status. 
for (@links) {
    chomp($_);
    my ($status, $reference, $project, $created) = split(/\t/, $_);
    if ($status eq "Completed") {
        push(@complete, $_);
    } else {
        push(@progress, $_);
    }
}

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After I have these two arrays I want to sort each in most recent to latest order. I used the other response to my post, which did sort both arrays but "12/13/02 09:42:51 CST" happens to appear before 12/05/02 13:19:50 CST when it should be the other way around.

I hope that I made things sound a little more clearier with this explanation.

Thanks for you help again, Bionicle32

In reply to Re: Re: Sorting a slurped file by a date field by bionicle32
in thread Sorting a slurped file by a date field by bionicle32

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