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diff --git a/contrib/seg/sort-segments.pl b/contrib/seg/sort-segments.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# this script will sort any table with the segment data type in its last column
+
+while (<>) {
+  chomp;
+  push @rows, $_;
+}
+
+foreach ( sort { 
+  @ar = split("\t", $a);
+  $valA = pop @ar;
+  $valA =~ s/[~<> ]+//g;
+  @ar = split("\t", $b);
+  $valB = pop @ar;
+  $valB =~ s/[~<> ]+//g;
+  $valA <=> $valB
+} @rows ) {
+  print "$_\n";;
+}