Hello all. I am not new to unix, but very new to perl. I have a nifty little script set up that finds people with an ID of 100,1000,10000 you get the point, but I am now trying to sort it alphabetically by last name and I am running into all kinds of snags, here is the scrpt any help would be appreciated

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my ($ID, $DP, $LN, $FN, $NM);

open(EMPLOYEES,"<employees") || die "Cannot Open";

while(<EMPLOYEES>) {
   if(/(.*):(1.*):(.*):(.*):(.*)/) {
      #Supposed to parse $_
      $ID = $1;
      $DP = $2;
      $LN = $3;
      $FN = $4;
      $NM = $5;
      print $ID; #
      print $DP; #
      print $LN; # So I can see if a value is there
      print $FN; #
      print $NM; #
chomp;
    (my @f = split(/:/)) == 5 or next;
    print join("\t", @f[2, 3, 0, 4]), "\n";
   }
}
close(EMPLOYEES)

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