My first time posting something here.

I am facing a little problem. I have made some codes that assembles data from different files into an output files. Problem is i want to write another code that can being the data in this output file in a sequence w.r.t. to a field.
for instance my data looks like


......
2.225:0:1248266065752:Y:282
2.232:0:1248266069770:Y:500
2.225:1:1248266072861:Y:438
2.232:1:1248266075785:Y:328
2.225:1:1248266081283:Y:297
2.232:1:1248266082035:Y:328
2.232:1:1248266087410:Y:281
2.225:1:1248266088768:Y:296
2.232:1:1248266091426:Y:281
....

what i would want is keeping the first field in mind; I would want the lines belonging to the ID 2.225 in sequence ... and when finished; it will be followed by the field 2.232 ... and so on ... In short i want to sort then according to the first field which you can say its the ID ...

I had some ideas for them but am afraid am not able to succeed with them; can anyone out there provide me a effective solution ... (: i would be so grateful!!

In reply to a little problem with sorting my data by aash08

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