Hi, and thanks for taking your time. I am new to Perl, and am trying to write a search engine. Now that I got the output to print I would just like to sort it a little better. The output currently looks like:

NSUBJ

_nsubj_ of move is: ***** it *****

MATCH #1 Sent. 60 The type of body cavity an animal has strongly influences how --it-- can **move** .

_nsubj_ of move is: ***** animals *****

MATCH #1 Sent. 88

These --animals-- **move** slowly or not at all .

MATCH #2 Sent. 89

Bilateral symmetry is a common characteristic of --animals-- that **move** freely through their environments .

I want to print the _nsubj_ of move is: ***** animals ***** first because it has more Matches. HOW would you go about doing this?

Here is the print part of the code:

 ## EDIT: Now the EVEN number is gramfunc, ODD number is sentence
my @allgramfunc; ## list of unique grammar func
my @allmatches; ##use for headings and all matches (sentences) under t
+hat heading as one scalar


my @sortedallgramfunc; ## What order for capital heading? => alphabeti
+cal
my @sortedheadmatches; ## What order for dependency heading? => freque
+ncy Depend on firstword?
my @sortedfirstmatches; ## To keep order of sentences with headmatches
my @sortedsecondmatches; ## To keep order of sentences with headmatche
+s

my %seenmatches = ();
my %seens = ();
#my @pluralfirstmatches = @firstmatches;
#my @pluralsecondmatches = @secondmatches;
#CREATE an array of all the grammar functions:
for (my $j=0; $j <= @grammatches; $j++) { ## Could be normal $j++ if u
+se another variable instead of @matches for both
    if ( defined( $grammatches[$j] )) { ## Just to avoid error message
        push (@allgramfunc, "$grammatches[$j]") unless ($seengramfunc{
+ $grammatches[$j] }++);
    }
}
#SORT overheadings by alphabetical
@sortedallgramfunc = sort { lc($a) cmp lc($b) } @allgramfunc;
#PRINT all the sentences which are related to searchkey by the same gr
+amfunc
foreach my $sortedallgramfunc (@sortedallgramfunc) {
    print ("\n",uc $sortedallgramfunc,"\n\n");# Which gramfunc is bein
+g shown?
    
    #@sortedheadmatches = sort @headmatches;
    for (my $l=0; $l <= @headmatches; $l++) {
        if (defined( $headmatches[$l] ) and $headmatches[$l] =~ /$sort
+edallgramfunc/) {
            
            #2#$pluralfirstmatches[$l] =~ s/$firstmatches[$l]$pluralsu
+ffix/$firstmatches[$l]/ig;    
            unless ($seenmatches{ $headmatches[$l] }++) {
                print $headmatches[$l];
                my $count = 1;
                for (my $m=0; $m <= @sentmatches; $m++) {
                    if ( defined( $sentmatches[$m]) and $sentmatches[$
+m] =~ /\s\S\S$firstmatches[$l]\S\S\s/ and $sentmatches[$m] =~ /\s\S\S
+$secondmatches[$l]\S\S\s/) { ##We know $l and $m are matching
                    #5# Try sorting by creating array that includes he
+ader and all sentences as a scalar, then by size, maybe join until hi
+t _dobj sort length $a cmp length $b maybe "length first then alphabe
+tical" => or $a cmp $b
                        print "MATCH #$count $sentmatches[$m]"; # unle
+ss $seens{ $sentmatches[$m] }++);
                        $count++;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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The way I thought to go about it is shown in the code comments, #5#..., Thanks again! This is my first time using this site, so if this format isn't good, let me know please!

In reply to Search Engine Output needs sorting by Anonymous Monk

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