If you're stuck with that lousy date format, something like this could work for your sorting sub:
sub sortDates {
my ($month1, $day1, $year1) = split /\//, $a;
my ($month2, $day2, $year2) = split /\//, $b;
$year1 += 1900 if $year1 < 50;
$year2 += 1900 if $year2 < 50;
$year1 <=> $year2
or
$month1 <=> $month2
or
$day1 <=> $day2;
}
...however this assumes that none of the dates are older than 1950... you may need to adjust the '50' to fit your values.
Alan "Hot Pastrami" Bellows
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