Sort CSV based on a certain column?

Question

I\'m sure I\'ve done this in the past and there is something small I\'m forgetting, but how can I sort a CSV file on a certain column? I\'m interested in answers with and wi

Answer 1

I would do something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my @rows = map { chomp; [split /[,\s]+/, $_] } ; #read each row into an array
my @sorted = sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } @rows; # sort the rows (numerically) by second column

for (@sorted) {
  print join(', ', @$_) . "\n"; # print them out as CSV
}

__DATA__
name,25,female
name,24,male
name,27,female
name,21,male