People of the Perl,
I have tried this code with no errors, but it is not giving me any results. My data file has 3 fileds and I am trying to sort the 3rd field, here is the data file: 
05/06/04        11:01:32        E00833  
05/06/04        11:01:32        E00545  
05/06/04        11:01:32        E00820  
05/06/04        11:01:32        E00610  
05/06/04        11:01:32        E00333  
05/06/04        11:01:32        E01099  
05/06/04        11:01:32        E00213  
05/06/04        11:01:32        E00612

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Below is my code: 

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 open (FOO, ">$scratches") || die "could not open file:$!";
        open (D, "$logf") || die "could not open file:$!";
       
         while (<D>) {

                ## look for 9840S and ebexpire
                ## declare OFS = tab  ## tell split to split on IRS 0,
+ 1 & 5. Very similar to awk print $

                if (($_ =~ /9840S/) && ($_ =~ /ebexpire, ebexpire/ )) 
+{
                        local $, = "\t";
                        print +(split)[0,1,5], $/;
                        
                } # end if
        } # end while
        
        foreach (<D>) {
                
                print FOO (sort { $a <=> $b } $_ )
        }
        close (FOO);
        close (D);

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My out file is zero bytes! Help!
thanks
drock

janitored by ybiC: Balanced <code> tags around sample data, as per consideration

In reply to sort using <=> by drock

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