Thanks Japhy...
I can see where you are going with this, we convert the month into a number, and then
sort the dates as a string.
My dates are the second keys of a hash of hashes. So I have routine like:
foreach $firstkey (keys %hoh)
{
foreach $thedate (keys %{ $hoh { $firstkey }} )
{
On Jul 3, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan said:
> @sorted_dates =
>map { s/(\d\d)(\d\d)/$1$num2mon{$2}/; $_ } # change MM -> MON
>sort# sort the dates
>map { s/(\D+)/$mon2num{$1}/; $_ } # change MON -> MM
>@dates;
>
>This assumes your dates
On Jul 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>My hash has keys that are dates in "ddmmm" format (21Jul2001).
The date format DDMM is easily sortable (even via normal 'cmp'
comparison). Translate your dates into this format:
%mon2num = qw(
Jan 01 Feb 02 Mar 03 Apr 04 May 05 Jun 06
Jul 07
My hash has keys that are dates in "ddmmm" format (21Jul2001).
I would like to sort the hash by date.
So as I understand it:
keys %dates
should return an array with the dates in. I can't sort that directly as it is a date,
so I was thinking that I could split the date out and timel
