On Feb 21, Wagner-David said: > Key CPU Mirror > $AUDIT 8 Y > $AUDIT1 7 Y > $DATA1 7 Y > $DATA2 7 Y > $DATA3 6 Y
>This data has already been sorted, but I have a couple of disks >which do not end in a number. I have the following setup to sort the >data: > > foreach my $MyKey ( > sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] || $a->[2] <=> $b->[2] } > map { [ $_, /^([a-z\-]+)(\d*)/i ] } > keys %MyDisks > ) { ... } > >where I have [0] as the key, [1] is alpha portion, [2] is number >I get two warnings: one for audit above and another for system. Both >without numbers. > >What can be done as it now stands or do I need to break out differently >(ie, if no numeric add a 0 to the key since I have no zero items? You could just say ($a->[2] || 0) <=> ($b->[2] || 0) or you be super sneaky and do map { [ $_, "${_}0" =~ /^([a-z-]+)(\d+)/i ] } The appended 0 assures that a digit will be matched, but won't end up affecting the actual order of numeric comparisons. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]