Thanks, got it working now.

I have a file that contains names and ages such as this...

Charley, 34
Sam, 3
Lucy, 18

Using a file handle I'm trying to parse out the ages and sort them numerically.

The problem seems to be when I try to split the $personsage variable by newline. The assignment puts all the ages into $age[0]. How can I put all the ages into an array that I can then sort? Thanks if advance. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;

my $file = "input.log";
my @sorted_ages;
open (IN, $file) || die "Couldn't find '$file': $!";

while (my $line = <IN>){
    my @age;
    my ($name, $personsage) = split(",",$line);
    @age = split("\n",$personsage);
    @sorted_ages = sort {$b <=> $a} @age;
}
close (IN);

foreach my $a (@sorted_ages){
    print $a;
}

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