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Re: Sorting an array of lines

by CharlesClarkson (Curate)
on Feb 12, 2002 at 06:46 UTC ( [id://144792]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Sorting an array of lines

Since you have some leading spaces in your lines, I used column 8 for the sort instead of column 7. '-8n' means sort descending on column 8 numerically.

use Sort::Fields;
my @sorted = fieldsort ['-8n'], @array;

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HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
Clarkson Energy Homes, Inc.

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