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Re: Re: Re: changing the printing order of a db

by jsprat (Curate)
on Jul 19, 2003 at 06:41 UTC ( [id://275834]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: changing the printing order of a db
in thread changing the printing order of a db

localtime in scalar context returns a string something like "Fri Jul 18 23:35:45 2003" which won't sort cleanly. Build the key like "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS" and the keys will be sorted on disk.

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use DB_File; unlink 'db'; # to prevent dupes if this is run more than once tie my %hash, 'DB_File', 'db', O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644, $DB_BTREE; print "Building \%hash...\n"; $|++; for my $count (1 .. 50) { my @time = localtime; my $key = $time[5] + 1900; $key .= sprintf "%02d", $time[$_] for reverse 0 .. 4; print "$count... " if $count % 10 == 0; $hash{$key} = "Message number $count"; sleep 1; } print "Output:\n"; print "$_: $hash{$_}\n" for keys %hash;

Check the output, you'll see what I mean. The keys come out lexically sorted - the messages go from Message #1 to #50.

Remember that you can have duplicate keys with $DB_BTREE. If two values are inserted with the same time stamp, there's no guarantee which way they will be retrieved (which is why I suggested $DB_RECNO).

HTH

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