I want to sort a hash of hash by date&time and then extract some of the data.
>From the data ive got i can contruct a key that is yyyymmddhhmm and i do this ##error trap absent entries if ($endan=~m/\d{2}:\d{2}\s+\d{2}/ && $stan=~m/\d{2}:\d{2}\s+\d{2}/ ) {my %daylist; ##split start and end date and time my ($endhour,$endmin,$endday,$endmonth,$endyear)=split(/[\ |:|\/]/, $endan); my($sthour,$stmin,$stday,$stmonth,$styear)=split(/[\ |:|\/]/,$stan); ##if its at weekends ( for instance ) my $day = (Date_DayOfWeek($stmonth,$stday,$styear)*1); if ($day>5 ) { my $fd="$styear$stmonth$stday$sthour$stmin"; $daylist{$fd}=\%$br; } foreach $key (sort (keys(%daylist))) { print "$key ";print $daylist{$key};print "\n"; } print "---\n"; } gives me output like this for 1 Oct --- 200610011733 HASH(0x8510560) --- 200610012057 HASH(0x85b3434) --- 200610011029 HASH(0x85732a0) --- 200610010928 HASH(0x86268a4) --- 200610011220 HASH(0x86270fc) so th print out is in the order 17:33 20:57 10:29 09:28 12:20 and my data for the 7th oct 2006 --- 200610071321 HASH(0x859cfdc) --- 200610071156 HASH(0x85a17e8) --- 200610071514 HASH(0x85a2034) --- which is 13:21 HASH(0x859cfdc) 11:56 HASH(0x85a17e8) 15:14 HASH(0x85a2034) so its not sorted as I want -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/