Re: tough sort question

I'm not even sure if I understand your problem. Looks as if you already solved most of it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Given the following text file: > > My first idea is to rebuild the array with a 'sortkey' pre-pended to each > record, and then sorting this temp-array by th

Re: tough sort question

: I need to sort all records by: 1) dept, name, record type. : ... : The real problem I have is with the "name" field being in one record only. : The 'xx' values show that the name cannot be simply copied to the remaining : records. Try a two-pass solution: first create a hash that maps IDs to n

RE: tough sort question

other stuff 56701xx Rother stuff 34502smith Dstuff 34502xx Eother stuff 34502xx Rmore stuff -Original Message- From: Steven.Spears@ dana.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tough sort question Given the following te

tough sort question

Given the following text file: 12301spears Dstuff 12301xx Rother stuff 12301xx Emore stuff 34502smith Dstuff 34502xx Eother stuff 34502xx Rmore stuff 56701jones Dstuff 56701xx Rother stuff 56701xx Emore stuff and the following info: chars (1-3) ID # chars (4-5)