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On 6 Apr 2000, at 13:40, Quackamoe T-Bird-S wrote:

> #!/apps/LWperl/bin/perl -w[1]
> while (<>){     # reads the file of numbers
> @wordlist = $_;
> @sortwordlist = sort { $a <=> $b } @wordlist;
> print @sortwordlist; 
> }

In line 3, you're overwriting the array with each pass through the 
while loop.  use push to add the next element to the array with 
each pass, and chomping it would be a good idea, too.  Then you 
want to have the sort routine outside the while loop (after it).

Hope that helps. ;-)

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