Hey, I want this program to take a document of names (the first name, a space, and then the last name), which are seperated by a newline, and sort them alphabetically by their last name, printing out their last name, a comma, and their first... But, for some reason, in my foreach loop it will only print one name, instead of all of the names...
Here's the code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 

use strict;

open(TEST, 'test.txt') || die "Couldn't open it";
print "\nFile Opened\n\n";
my $i=1;
my %list;
while(<TEST>){
chomp($_);
$_ = /(\w*)\s?(\w*)\n?/;
print "$i : $2\,$1\n";
%list = ("$i" => ["$1","$2"]);

$i+=1;
}
foreach $a(sort(keys(%list))){print "$list{$a}[1]\,$list{$a}[0]\n"}

close(TEST);
die "\n\nFile Closed\n";

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test.txt:

Emmitt Smith
Walter Payton
Barry Sanders
Jim Brown

Thanks,
Emmitt

In reply to Associative Array Trouble by EmmittSmith

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