Hi, I have written a perl script that is pulling a load of info from a pipe (|) delimited flat file db. Here is the code I use to get the info and use it 
open(LOGFILE, $list);
        @entries = <LOGFILE>;
    close LOGFILE;
    
    &header;

foreach $line (@entries) { 
        @fields = split(/\|/,$line);
        
%field = (CassID => $fields[0],
          CDID => $fields[1],
          Category => $fields[2],
          Title => $fields[3],
          Image => $fields[4],
          Description => $fields[5],
          CASS_Price => $fields[6],
          CD_Price => $fields[7],
          Artist => $fields[8],
          CASS_CatNo => $fields[9],
          CD_CatNo => $fields[10],
          Database => $fields[11],
          Label => $fields[12],
          ID => $fields[13],
          );

        
foreach ($line) {
print <<EOHtml;
html stuff

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What I would like to be able to do is sort them by the first letter of the $Field{'Artist'} field. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Lloyd.

In reply to Sorting on a particular field from a Flat File db?? by Anonymous Monk

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