Re: Question on approach

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Shawn H. Corey<shawnhcorey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

> Unfortunately, the data is not directly sortable since the date is in
> American format, not SystÃme International (SI). ÂSI dates are directly
> sortable and are the preferred format for storing dates.
>
> I would use a heap to sort:
>

Parts of the date, however, are sortable. Use that to your advantage.

 for my $item (sort { $a->[3] <=> $b->[3] || $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] ||
$a->[2] <=> $b->[2] || $a->[4] cmp $b->[4] } map { split /@|-/  }
<DATA>) {
     #do something
}

HTH,

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