On 09/06/18 07:23, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 06/08/2018 09:51 PM, Timo Paulssen wrote:
That's unnecessarily long and complicated, here's how you can do it much
easier:

      @x.sort: {
          my ($month, $day, $year, $hour, $minute, $second) =
.comb(/\d+/);
          ($year // 0, $month // 0, $day // 0, $hour // 0, $minute // 0,
$second // 0, $_);
      }

Trying it on some input data:

      cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
      cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_17:07:39.zip
      cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_06:07:39.zip
      cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
      cimtrak.log.12-08-2016_06:07:39.zip
      cookies
      asbestos
      fire engine
      perl6
      butterflies

results in:

      asbestos
      butterflies
      cookies
      fire engine
      perl6
      cimtrak.log.12-08-2016_06:07:39.zip
      cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
      cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_17:07:39.zip
      cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_06:07:39.zip
      cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_16:07:39.zip

This is the schwartzian transform that was mentioned in another mail.
why it wasn't actually shown, i have no clue :)

Hope that helps
    - Timo



What am I doing wrong?

$ ls | perl6 -e 'my @x=slurp();  say @x.sort: {my ($month, $day,
$year, $hour, $minute, $second) = .comb(/\d+/);($year // 0, $month //
0, $day // 0, $hour // 0, $minute // 0,$second // 0, $_);}'
(cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_17:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_06:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.12-08-2016_06:07:39.zip
)


On 06/08/2018 10:24 PM, Timo Paulssen wrote:
your list @x has only a single item, because you're slurping the whole
file contents into it.

replacing slurp with lines should do the trick.



Yippee!!  Thank you!

$ ls | perl6 -e 'my @x=lines(); for @x.sort: {my ($month, $day, $year, $hour, $minute, $second) = .comb(/\d+/);($year // 0, $month // 0, $day // 0, $hour // 0, $minute // 0,$second // 0, $_);} -> $Line {say $Line};'
cimtrak.log.12-08-2016_06:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_17:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_06:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_16:07:39.zip

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