Hofmator, could you explain (for this novice) what the map portions do in there? I would have to agree with dmmiller2k, very elegant, short, and to the point. Too bad for me I don't get the point though.
I have one more request, take it easy on me, I write my perl like I wrote my Basic programs 14 years ago.
TIA.
-spartan
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I think the for someone who is not very familiar with map, the Schwartzian Transform is a complete mystery. It took me seeing map in action to appreciate its usefulness. So, in the interest of opening a novice's eyes...
The map function is one of Perl's more wonderous keywords. It's in my list of Perl Milestones of Enlightenment - mysterious at first, powerful yet simple in its action.
map takes two arguments: an operation of some sort (no pun intended) like a single keyword or a code block (as is used in this case). And a list to operate on. The example given in the pod offers:@chars = map(chr, @nums);. Which takes the list of @nums and performs the chr function on them and assigns the new array to @chars. Or, rewritten with a code block: @chars = map {chr}, @nums; Look right to left, bottom to top, to see the progression. On to the routine...
So what happens in Hofmator's implementation is every element in the list @unsorted goes through the code block of:
/^([+-])(\d+)h(\d+)m$/; [$_, sprintf("%s%d",$1,$2*60+$3)]
The regex splits up the string into +-, hours, and minutes, and the second half creates an anonymous array out of it: first element being the original string, $_, the second being the total minutes of the string.
Sort does its magic, sorting on the second element (that's 1). No calculation of minutes needed - already done by the map.
Then the map closest to the @sorted assignment takes the annonymous array, taking just the first element (the original string).
There's your sorted list of time strings with the minute calculation performed only once per array element.
HTH
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Ok, you have read Schwartzian Transform, haven't you? And then I point you to the excellent FMTEYEWTK on sort at CPAN.
I don't think you will need to - but feel free to get back to me if anything is still unclear after reading that.
-- Hofmator
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historical sidenote... I believe that the FMTEYEWTK article
you mentioned is where the name 'Schwartzian Transform' came from.
-Blake
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Nice work. Very clean, elegant.
As I was reading through the node and its replies, I was formulating just such an approach for my own reply.
dmm
Just call me the Anti-Gates ...
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