Ok heres what i have so far

#!/usr/bin/perl 
 my $inFile = "Report.txt";
 my $outFile = "SortedReport.txt";
    open IN, "< $inFile";
    open OUT, ">> $outFile";
    
 my @not_sorted = <IN>;
 print OUT "|CSED Form|OrderNumber|Date|Total Documents|Total Pages|\n
+";
        @sorted = sort { lc($a) cmp lc($b) } @not_sorted; # alphabetic
+al sort
        my $count = 1;
        foreach(@sorted)
        {
        $frmType = substr $_, 1, 3;
        if ($frmType = "M729")
            {
            print OUT "$_";

            $count ++;
            }
            else {
            print OUT "There were $count Monthly 729 runs\n";
            }
            }
            foreach(@sorted)
            {
            $frmType = substr $_, 1, 3;
            
        if ($frmType = "M737")
            {
            print OUT "$_";

            $count ++;
            }
            else {
            print OUT "there were $count Monthly 737 runs\n";
                }
            }
            $count = 0;
            foreach(@sorted)
            {
            $frmType = substr $_, 1, 3;
            
        if ($frmType = "Q569")
            {
            print OUT "$_";

            $count ++;
            }
            else {
            print OUT "there were $count Quarterly 569 runs\n";
            }
        }        
 close OUT;
 close IN;
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