I am still new to PERL and have been traversing this webiste and need assistance with a problem I am having with a comma delimetd file. The file looks like

COUNT    Type    Error Message
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3         pro     bad message #1
99        dis     bad message #2
209       pro     bad message #3
44        dis     bad message #4
19        dis     Bad message #5
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I need a piece of code that can read in this file (minus the descriptive headers.) Preferable load it into an array or hash, then sort it by the count into ascending order. I am really uncertian on the best way to do this and would appreciate everybody's help. PS. I would prefer to do this without any modules but if you have a way to do this easilyt with a module please let me know.

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