Hi Folks,

I'm trying to make a table of contents of sorts from a flatFile. I would like to sort the array so the list is in alphabetical order, but I seem to be struggling with what I'm sure is a very simple problem. I've tried sort(@fields) and fields = sort(fields) and don't seem to get anywhere. Can anyone help me out with what I'm missing? 
open (DB,"logfile.log") or die("There was a problem opening the file."
+);
while ($entry=<DB>) {
@fields=split(/\t/,$entry);
chomp @fields; 

print <<ENDHTML;

<li><a href="#$fields[0]">$fields[0] ( $fields[1] )</a></li>

ENDHTML
}
close DB;

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Thank You!

LakeTrout

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