I'm reading from a MySQL database using DBI/DBD. I want to be able to read the results that equal a certain query, print them, their count, their percentage to another number (not important what number it is) and print them in order by count.

Here's what I'm using (could be written better than this I'm sure):

        my $sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT DISTINCT surveys, COUNT(*) FRO
+M neverland GROUP BY surveys ORDER BY surveys DESC'); 
        $sth->execute() or die $sth->errstr; 
        while (my @result = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
        my $percent = (@result[1] / $nothernumber)*100;
        printf qq(<tr><td><font size="2" face="Arial">@result[0]</font
+></td><td><font size="2" face="Arial">@result[1]</font></td><td align
+="right"><font face="arial" size="2">%.1f%%</td></tr>\n),$percent;
        }

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This gives me something like this:

monkeys
gorillas
bats		8
9
2		17%
25%
5%


I'd like it to return this:

gorillas
monkeys
bats		9
8
2		17%
25%
5%


ORDER BY COUNT doesn't work. I put in ORDER BY DESC just to see how far I could take it. Any ideas?

TIA

peppiv

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