Hi All, I have been trying to find with in Text::CSV a way to sort on 1 column 1 first and then by 44th column. Reading through CPAN module page and googling I can not seem to find a way to sort on multiple fields using Text::CSV. can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks ! 

here is what I have so far:

while( <IN2> ) {
  chomp;
  $count++;
  # skip header
  next unless $count;
  my $row;
  @$row = split( /,/, $_ );
  push @$sheet, $row;
}
 
foreach my $row ( sort { $a->[0] cmp $b->[0] || $a->[44] cmp $b->[44] 
+} @$sheet ) {
  print OUT join( ',', @$row ), "\n";
 
}

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problem is the 45th field can 1 or 001 2 or 002. I need to strip the preceding 00 and then sort. for some reason I notice that in field 45 after sorting it can look like: 1 10 11 17 2 4 5

In reply to How do I sort a CSV file on multiple columns? by mmittiga17

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