my @lines = read_file('/tmp/test.txt');
chomp(@lines);

my $sql = q|select * from table_name where srcaddr = ? or dstaddr = ?|
+;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die "Can't prepare SQL statement: $DB
+I::errstr\n";

foreach my $line (@lines) {
        $sth->execute($line, $line) or die "Can't execute SQL statemen
+t: $DBI::errstr\n";
        my @all_rows;
        while ( my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref()) {
                push(@all_rows, $ref);
        }
        my @sorted = map {$_->[0]} sort {$a->[1] <=> $b->[1] ||
             $a->[2] <=> $b->[2] || $a->[3] <=> $b->[3] ||
             $a->[4] <=> $b->[4]} map {
             [$_, split(/\./, (split /\s+/, $_)[1])]} @all_rows;
        print "$_\n" for @sorted;
}
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ARRAY(0x96b0d80)
ARRAY(0x96b0d80)
ARRAY(0x96b0d80)
ARRAY(0x96b0d80)
ARRAY(0x96b0d80)
ARRAY(0x96b0d80)
ARRAY(0x96b0d80)
ARRAY(0x96b0d80)
ARRAY(0x96b0d80)
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foreach my $row_ref (@all_rows) {
          print "@{$row_ref}\n";
}
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And what happens if you replace your

 my @sorted =...
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with the replacement I've offered in the previous snippet... ?

Krambambuli
---

Hey Krambambuli, thanks again for helping me out. Here is the code that I have with your suggestions(FYI I changed the line in your code that shows @lines to @all_rows and @all_rows to @all_rows1, since the array @lines is storing the data which you manually populated).
Below the code is a sample of the results. Two questions, the @lines array in your example shows the data correctly as I would like to work with, the only problem is that they are not stored in 1 line in the array.

foreach my $line (@lines) {
        $sth->execute($line, $line) or die "Can't execute SQL statemen
+t: $DBI::errstr\n";
        my @all_rows;
        while ( my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref()) {
                push(@all_rows, $ref );
        }

        my @sorted
        = map { $_->[0] }
          sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1]
                         ||
                 $a->[2] <=> $b->[2]
                         ||
                 $a->[3] <=> $b->[3]
                         ||
                 $a->[4] <=> $b->[4]

               } map { [$_, split(/\./, (split /\s+/, $_)[1] ) ] }
                     @all_rows;

        my @all_rows1 = map { [ split( /\s+/, $_ ) ] }
                   @all_rows;

        my @sorted1
        = map { join( ' ', @{ $_->[0] } ) }
          sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1]
                         ||
                 $a->[2] <=> $b->[2]
                         ||
                 $a->[3] <=> $b->[3]
                         ||
                 $a->[4] <=> $b->[4]

               } map { [$_, split(/\./, $$_[1] ) ] }
                 @all_rows1;
        print Dumper @sorted1;
}
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Here are the results that I am getting with the code shown above looks like I am just getting array refs??

$VAR1 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR2 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR3 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR1 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR2 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR3 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR4 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR5 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR6 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR1 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR1 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
$VAR1 = 'ARRAY(0x94db6f8)';
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Here is what the results look like if I used the code which I posted in the previous post(keep in mind that the results that I am getting with that code are correct/accurate) but the way it gets printed the sort won't do anything cause the sort is looking for data the look like the data in your @lines example that you used in your sort map.

$VAR1 = [
          'data',
          'data',
          'data',
          'data',
          'data',
         ];
$VAR2 = [
          'data',
          'etc..etc',
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