For loop Help

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi having some problems here.
This code is already inside of a for loop

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for $x (0..$avarege->getLength-1) {
................
my($res_month, $res_day, $res_year);
foreach my $key ($effectivedate[$x]) {
chomp $key;
($res_month, $res_day, $res_year) = split/\//, $key;
my @results = $key;
print $#results;
   print "@results - <b>data found in $res_month * $res_day * $res_yea
+r</b>";
   if($res_month >= $res_month){print "^^ $res_month ^^";}
}


.....}
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At the end I would like to print the line that has the most recent date.
Here a sample of the data.

Record 0: Coll 02/14/2003 Charles S.  2862.30 00000 ISSUE WWW
Record 1: Coll 03/17/2003 Peter C. 392.50 00000 ISSUE WWW
Record 2: Coll 07/25/2003 John K. 10.00 00000 ISSUE CCC
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From this file I would get this line:
Record 2: Coll 07/25/2003 John K. 10.00 00000 ISSUE CCC
Need some help.....

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Re: For loop Help by esskar (Deacon) on Apr 02, 2004 at 15:49 UTC
`sub compare { my ($x, $y) = @_; my $date1 = join("", reverse split(/\//, $x)); my $date2 = join("", reverse split(/\//, $y)); return $date1 <=> $date2; } my @ordered = map { compare($a, $b) } @effectivedate; print $ordered[0];` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: For loop Help by neniro (Priest) on Apr 02, 2004 at 16:38 UTC
Okay, it is ugly, but it works: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my %result; while(<DATA>) { m#(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{4})#; $result{$3. $2. $1} = $_; }; my $highest = $result{(sort keys %result)[-1]}; print $highest, "\n"; exit; __DATA__ Record 0: Coll 02/14/2003 Charles S. 2862.30 00000 ISSUE WWW Record 1: Coll 03/17/2003 Peter C. 392.50 00000 ISSUE WWW Record 2: Coll 07/25/2003 John K. 10.00 00000 ISSUE CCC` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: For loop Help by Anonymous Monk on Apr 02, 2004 at 23:12 UTC
Is the most recent the last line in the file, like your sample data. If so, you could try File::ReadBackwards and only read and print the last line of the file & exit. `use File::ReadBackwards ; # Object interface $bw = File::ReadBackwards->new( 'log_file' ) or die "can't read 'log_file' $!" ; while( defined( $log_line = $bw->readline ) ) { print $log_line ; last; # Only print the last line }` [download] HTH, Chris	[reply] [d/l]
Re: For loop Help by eric256 (Parson) on Apr 02, 2004 at 15:41 UTC
I missed the question in that. What part do you need help with? ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]


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