How to sort on right most column

[Chris Sherman]

In <13320 at exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> rock at warp.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Petro) writes:


>How could I do this using either the sort command, or perl or awk?

>I have the following data in this format - I want to sort it on the
>right most column.  

>  0    1   2                              3                     4

>  a    b   c                              c                     e

> FOO  BAR ACE CORPORATION                SUNNYVALE              2.00
> FOO  BAR ACER COMPUTED COMPANY          MILPITAS              20.00

I hate to be a spoil sport, but how about from the unix prompt:

% sort -n +.60b

Maybe you could do something like this inside perl...  I'm not sure
how though, and still keep it really fast.

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