Howdy Monks from Texas,
I have a problem and since I ain't the brightest star in the night sky I thought I would ask for a little help. I have a webpage that displays the following data. This is a text representation, not the pretty output of the page: 
Transid | Date | Time | PagerID | Message Description
99996 | Feb10 | 11:18  | sundallas_e | dspmmr3 at 02/10/2005 10:18:04 
+CPU Utilization is at 99.73%
99995 | Feb10 | 11:17  | hpdallas_e  | zcompass at 02/10/2005 09:57:04
+ CPU Utilization is at 100%

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And so forth, the problem I have is with my sort. At any given time I have 200 messages displaying. I sort numerically descending the array to make sure the list displays numerically with the highest value for the Transid at the top. The problem is that once I reach 99999 and roll-over to 00001, the 00001 event displays at the bottom of the list and of course until 200 events occur after this roll-over the page is out of whack. I keep trying to think of exactly what I need to do with additional code at the sort and try fixing this myself, but I have mental block and can't seem to figure it out. Below is the actual code that performs the sorting. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Danny 
### Output Loop.  Sub Routine to generate Web Output to ActiveWindow
sub webpage_output {
    while(1) {
        if ( -e $Statfile ){
                open(ACTWIN,">$ActiveWindow") || die "Couldn't open fi
+le $ActiveWindow - $!\n";
                print ACTWIN "Transid|Datestamp|Timestamp|Ticket|Pager
+Id|Message|Status\n";
###
### changed method of opening getting the last files in the directory
### also changed sort order to display on screen
### April 5, 2004

                opendir(CacheDir,$Cache) || die "Couldn't open the dir
+ectory $Cache: $!\n";
                @filelist=grep { /[0-9]{5}/ } readdir(CacheDir);
                closedir(CacheDir);
                @sortlist=sort {$b <=> $a} @filelist;    
                for ($i=0;$i<$MsgCount;$i++)
                {
                
                    $filename=$sortlist[$i];
                    if ($filename)
                    {
                      open(ITEM,"$Cache/$filename");
                      while(<ITEM>){
                        chomp;
                        if(/TransID=(.*)/){$a=$1;}
                        if(/DATE=(.*)/){$b=$1;}
                        if(/TIME=(.*)/){$c=$1;}
                        if(/TICKET=(.*)/){$d=$1;}
                        if(/PagerID=(.*)/){$e=$1;}
                        if(/Message=(.*)/)
                                                {
                                                  $f=$1;
                                                  $cont="Y";
                                                  next;
                                                }
                                                if(/Status=(.*)/){$g=$
+1; $cont="";next;}
                                                if ($cont eq "Y")
                                                {
                                                    $f=$f.$_;
                                                }

                       }
                       close(ITEM);
                       print ACTWIN "$a|$b|$c|$d|$e|$f|$g\n";
                    }
                }
                close(ACTWIN);
                unlink($Statfile) || die "Couldn't delete $Statfile - 
+$!\n";
        }
        sleep($naptime);
    }
}

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20050110 Edit by ysth: code tags around sample data

20050212 Edit by castaway: Changed title from 'sort a nuts'

In reply to Sorting through a rollover by onegative

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