Re: splitting array values

First it sounds like you don't really know what is in $score[0] (note not @score[0], though that may work). To get around this,

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(\@score);
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This will tell you what is actually in @score, where the first element will be $score[0].

Also, an array doesn't really contain another array. arrays can only contain scalars, though one type of scalar is a refrence, which can be thought of as a pointer to another array. If $score[0] is such a reference to an array, the correct notation is:

@sorted= reverse sort { $a <=> $b } @{$score[0]};
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This properly de-references the referance to feed an array into the sort.

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Re: splitting array values by mkurtis (Scribe) on May 20, 2004 at 01:44 UTC
The code that creates the array is this: `while( ($key, $value) = each %rank ) { $rank = $rank . " " . $key; }` [download] Also when I print `print $score[0];` it still gives me all the contents of the array. Thanks	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re (2): splitting array values by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on May 20, 2004 at 02:10 UTC
It looks like your making one long string in `$rank`, the equivalent of:`$rank .= " " . $key;` I'm guessing that your array has one element with one long string in it, so it looks like it's not sorted. If you just want to get a sorted list of the keys, you can do: `@sorted = sort { $b <=> $a } keys %rank;` [download] Notice you don't have to do a `reverse`, you can just change the sense of the comparison.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re (2): splitting array values by mkurtis (Scribe) on May 20, 2004 at 04:05 UTC
I tried sorting the keys like you said VSarkiss, but it still doesn't change the order when I sort them, or when I reverse them either. thanks	[reply]


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