[Gllug] heres a perl one to get you thinking

[bredroll]

Thanks, worked a treat.

:-)

bred

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, mallum wrote:

> maybe something like;
> 
> @sorted = sort { (split /\t/, $b)[$x] cmp (split /\t/, $a)[$x] } @unsorted;
> 
> where $x is the field number you want to sort.
> 
> mallum
> 
> on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:35:24PM -0400, bredroll wrote:
> > Ok, my small dilema is this.
> > 
> > I want to sort an array by the preciding characters after xth occurance of
> > tab in each array element.
> > 
> > ie.
> > 
> > this is an array :-)
> > 
> > 001\tfish\tcow\tcar\moo
> > 002\tbaloon\tbox\tcat\tzoooom
> > 004\taa\tbb\tcc\tdd
> > 
> > so i now want to sort this list by everything after say the second tab
> > (\t) in each element, (ie sort the three using 'cow,box,cc' as the sort
> > data. 
> > 
> > any ideas?
> > 
> > bredroll
> > 
> > 
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