working with files

I am having a problem getting a small portion of my program to work. The problem is a follows:

i have two files each containing a city name and then a number eg.

Bermingham 34
Talahassee 23
London 42

I need to read these files into parallel arrays. So far about everything I have tried had gone wrong somewhere.

The next part is sorthing the arrays what is the best way to do that? I need to sort first by number then alphebetical.....

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

you should really post some code so that we can see where you may have gone wrong in the first step.