Chas. Owens wrote:
That date format is directly sortable, so unless you have another
reason to convert to epoch time just use a string comparison in the
sort. I would probably write the code like this:
Unfortunately, the data is not directly sortable since the date is in
American format, not Système International (SI). SI dates are directly
sortable and are the preferred format for storing dates.
I would use a heap to sort:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my %data = ();
while( <DATA> ){
my ( $path, $am_date ) = split m{ \@ }msx, $_, 2;
my ( $mo, $day, $yr, $time ) = split m{ \- }msx, $am_date;
$data{$yr}{$mo}{$day}{$time} = $_;
}
print Dumper \%data;
for my $yr ( sort { $a <=> $b } keys %data ){
for my $mo ( sort { $a <=> $b } keys %{ $data{$yr} } ){
for my $day ( sort { $a <=> $b } keys %{ $data{$yr}{$mo} } ){
for my $time ( sort { $a cmp $b } keys %{ $data{$yr}{$mo}{$day} } ){
print $data{$yr}{$mo}{$day}{$time};
}
}
}
}
__DATA__
foo/bar/[email protected]
foo/bar/[email protected]
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