Re: Sorting Criteria

Aristotle already told what was wrong, so here is a suggestion for your sort method:

sub sorter {
  "$hashYear{$a}$hashMonth{$a}$hashDay{$a}" <=> "$hashYear{$b}$hashMon
+th{$b}$hashDay{$b}"
}
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Re: Re: Sorting Criteria by sgifford (Prior) on Aug 05, 2003 at 18:48 UTC
That will work if days and months are zero-padded. Otherwise, "1/11" will compare equal to "11/1".	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Sorting Criteria by Cine (Friar) on Aug 05, 2003 at 20:03 UTC
Yeah, silly me `sub sorter { sprintf"%04d%02d%02d",$hashYear{$a},$hashMonth{$a},$hashDay{$a} <=> sprintf"%04d%02d%02d",$hashYear{$b},$hashMonth{$b},$hashDay{$b} }` [download] T I M T O W T D I	[reply] [d/l]


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