Re: [MacPerl] sorting arrays

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 09:21 -0400 6/16/99, cetasix@pop.erols.com wrote:
> I am trying to sort a simple text file:
> Janssen||Willem
> Hinders||Trintje
> Beving||John
> Beving||Henrietta
> Beving||Ubbe
> Beving||Henry
> Beving||Henry
> Beving||Etta
> Beving||Minnie
> Beving||Bertha
> Willemssen||male
> Willemssen||male
> Willemssen||Wopka(e)
> Brower||Coba
> Brower||John
> Brower||Bertha


Is it more than just a simple sort you want?  That is, do you want to _do
something_ with the data? Or just sort it?

Have I missed something?

script:

  #!perl

  open(IN, "names.txt") or die "Oops";

  @names = <IN>;

  # note this is an ASCII (case-sensitive) sort; you may want to
  # "improve" on that

  @sorted = sort @names;

  foreach (@sorted) {
    print;
	# note you could now split or substitute ", " for the || or...
    # What are you trying to accomplish? Beyond a simple sort?
  }

results:

Beving||Bertha
Beving||Etta
Beving||Henrietta
Beving||Henry
Beving||Henry
Beving||John
Beving||Minnie
Beving||Ubbe
Brower||Bertha
Brower||Coba
Brower||John
Hinders||Trintje
Janssen||Willem
Willemssen||Wopka(e)
Willemssen||male
Willemssen||male


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