RE: Unusual Sort question

2001-05-24 Thread Peter Cornelius
>I would like to sort the same using > the last field (ie. lward, ohara, dray) starting with > the 2nd character (ie from ward , hara and ray) : Check out perldoc sort and perldoc substr. I think this will do what you want @sorted = sort { $aname = (split /\s+/, $a)[-1]; $bname

RE: Unusual Sort question

2001-05-24 Thread Wagner-David
$alt (sort {$a->[1] cmp $b->[1] } map{ [$_, /\s+\w(\w+)$/i ] } @UnSorted) { printf "%-s\n", $alt->[0]; } Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Gustho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 15:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unusual Sort question Below is

Re: Unusual Sort question

2001-05-24 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On May 24, Jeff Pinyan said: >Now the GRT looks like: > > @sorted = > ># get rid of leading sorting string >map { s/^\S+\s+// } That should be map { s/^\S+\s+//; $_ } or even grep { s/^\S+\s+// } You can use grep() here since all lines will match that regex. -- Jeff "jap

Re: Unusual Sort question

2001-05-24 Thread Peter Scott
At 05:59 PM 5/24/01 -0400, Gustho wrote: >Below is a sample directory listing of the mail folder >on a Linux box, I would like to sort the same using >the last field (ie. lward, ohara, dray) starting with >the 2nd character (ie from ward , hara and ray) : > >-rw--- 1 lward mail0 May 24

Re: Unusual Sort question

2001-05-24 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On May 24, Gustho said: >Below is a sample directory listing of the mail folder >on a Linux box, I would like to sort the same using >the last field (ie. lward, ohara, dray) starting with >the 2nd character (ie from ward , hara and ray) : > >-rw--- 1 lward mail0 May 24 15:43 lward >-rw

Unusual Sort question

2001-05-24 Thread Gustho
Below is a sample directory listing of the mail folder on a Linux box, I would like to sort the same using the last field (ie. lward, ohara, dray) starting with the 2nd character (ie from ward , hara and ray) : -rw--- 1 lward mail0 May 24 15:43 lward -rw--- 1 ohara mail 8303 May