On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Shawn H. Corey wrote:
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> 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
>I have no idea what was wrong with me last night. You are absolutely
>right, those are not in a sortable format.
All the replies led me down the path of enlightenment:) The string before
the "@" will always be the same, in fact, I must error check for this, so
no need for a hash, I can just appl
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:54, Shawn H. Corey wrote:
> 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 i
Shawn H. Corey wrote:
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
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
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 00:18, Joseph L.
Casale wrote:
> Hi,
> I have some data I will read into an array that is the format
> "some_string"@"date" such as "foo/bar/b...@07-23-2009-11.42.02".
>
> To work with this, I will convert the date part (everything after
> the "@" to the epoch format so it's
Hi,
I have some data I will read into an array that is the format
"some_string"@"date" such as "foo/bar/b...@07-23-2009-11.42.02".
To work with this, I will convert the date part (everything after
the "@" to the epoch format so it's easy to sort accurately. I
figured I would create a hash with key
