Re^2: How do I combine SPLIT with trimming white space

Hi Marshall
One of the reasons there was no semi colon after Betty, was that she was at the end of the original e-mail To: list. One of the things I wanted to do is just pull the To: and CC: as one cut and paste. That leaves a new line between the last name and the first CC: the original code changes the CC: to a semi colon.
Also part of the original requirements is a sorted list. Thanks though, some nice ideas.

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Re^3: How do I combine SPLIT with trimming white space
by Marshall (Canon) on Aug 14, 2009 at 17:13 UTC

I thought something was weird with the missing semicolon - just a small detail.

As far as sorting goes print "$name\n"; #push to DB or whatever here... is where you can just push to a list like @full_names. Here is one way of many to do the sort. Note that the "Boop" family winds up in the correct sort order.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @names = 
 (
     "Builder,Bob",
     "Stein,Franklin",
     "Boop,Elizabeth",
     "Boop,Albert",
     "Bear,Izzy",
     "SomeGuy,Guy",
     "Einstein,Albert",);
   
@names = sort by_last_name @names;

print join("\n",@names),"\n";

sub by_last_name
{
   my ($a_last, $a_first) = split (/,/,$a);
   my ($b_last, $b_first) = split (/,/,$b);
           $a_last cmp $b_last
                   or
           $a_first cmp $b_first        
}

__END__
Prints:
Bear,Izzy
Boop,Albert
Boop,Elizabeth
Builder,Bob
Einstein,Albert
SomeGuy,Guy
Stein,Franklin
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