Please accept my sincerest apology if this is the wrong area to post my request. I purchased a classifieds software program which is written in Perl and would like to make some modifications. I am learning Perl, however slowly, and am having a hard time alphabetizing.I presently have this: 
'21' => ['category','ascend', '9', '1', '1', '1', 'Category','on','on'
+, '', 'string', '=', 'on', 'select', '', '', 'CERAMICS|SILVER|FURNITU
+RE|SILVERPLATE|GLASS|TEXTILES|METALWARE|POST 1900|PEWTER|MISCELLANEOU
+S|REPRODUCTIONS', 'on', 'bold', 'general', '80'],

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To get this:

                 Listing Categories

CERAMICS(3)                      SILVER (4)
FURNITURE(8)                     SILVERPLATE(6)
GLASS(12)                        TEXTILES (8)
METALWARE(1)                     POST 1900 (0)
PEWTER(0)                        POST 1900(0)
REPRODUCTIONS(3)                 MISCELLANEOUS(5)

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Everything APPEARS the way I want it to on the page, however, it appears out of alphabetical order in another segment of the program. When I put the Categories in strict alphabetical order and 2 pipe symbols (as per software tech), I get one column and an additional (0) for example:

CERAMICS (3)                 (0)
FURNITURE (8)                (0)
GLASS (12)                   (0)

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I would like everything to be in strict alphabetical order, no (0) and 2 columns. Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance for your assistance.

In reply to Help with Alphabetizing - Array? by Jeanie

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