You should consider looking at the Curses module.
On 26 Jun 2001 19:41:45 +0800, Rajeev Rumale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a SQL query which returns me a very large number of records. since it
> is not good to list them all I want to *page* them.( Displaying a fixed
> number of records at a time) and the more forward and back ward. Just like
> the serch engines display their results.
>
> I would like to know if there is a effecient solution for same.
>
> with regards
>
> Rajeev Rumale
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Bedish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 7:21 PM
> Subject: sort by value?
>
>
> > I have a very simple tab delimited file containing text and numbers ,
> > just the 2 columns and I would like to sort by ascending numeric. I have
> > checked Learning Perl and Prog Perl but cannot get it to work - is that
> > because you can only sort by key or am I using the wrong approach
> > entirely?
> >
> > my @fields = qw/Text Time/;
> > my %ch;
> > foreach my $key (sort { $ch{1} cmp $ch{2} } keys %ch ) {
> > print OUT "$key: $ch{$key} \n"; # show key and value
> > }
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark Bedish
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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