I advocate this a lot these days: if you can, use 

lynx -dump "http://site.i.have.to.use/CHARTS/etc"

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And work on plain text.

The rest of your problem sounds a little vague. Using $a and $b is pretty simple, unless you're playing with references (which one might do in this situation). 

@dates = sort { $a <=> $b } @dates; #numerical sort of dates

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It would help us a lot more if you could post your code and tell us the error message or how the output your getting diverges from what you want.

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

In reply to Re: Sorting, arrays and other problems by arturo
in thread Sorting, arrays and other problems by TrinityInfinity

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