Hi all...newbie here desperately needing to sort ... and suffering badly...
#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use strict;

use Lingua::EN::NameCase qw( nc );
 
#Where the files are located...
my $Location = 'z:/bpermits/data2007/test/marchpermits.txt';<br>
my $OutFile = 'z:/bpermits/data2007/test/output.txt';

#Open the files......
open(PERMSIN, $Location) or die "unable to open $Location: $!";
open(OUT, ">$OutFile") or die "unable to open $OutFile: $!";
 
#Read in the file, using a loop........
my @columns = qw( Permit_Number Street_Number Street_Prefix Street_Nam
+e Street_Suffix Lot
          Block Issue_Date Proposed_Use_Code Permission_To_Code Square
+_Feet Estimated_Cost
          Units Subdivision Zoning 
          Contractor_Name Contractor_Add1 Contractor_Add2 Contractor_C
+ity Contractor_State Contractor_Zip 
          Contractor_Phone1 Contractor_Phone2 
          Owner_Name Owner_Add1 Owner_Add2 Owner_City Owner_State Owne
+r_Zip Owner_Phone );


while( my $line = <PERMSIN> ) {
    chomp( $line );
        
    # populate the hash %thisrecord with the column names and the valu
+es from this line
    my @fields = split( /,/, $line );
    my %thisrecord = map { $columns[$_] => $fields[$_] } ( 0 .. $#fiel
+ds );
    my @data = ();
    push @data, \%thisrecord;
}

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I just have no idea where to go from here.... I know I need the following line at some point, but don't know where...
sort { $b->{ Estimated_Cost } <=> $a->{ Estimated_Cost } } @data;

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In reply to Help with sort.... by skins96

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