Re: Where am I going wrong ?

You need to actually call sort if you want something sorted ;-)

You need to sort the whole @list and then loop through to print if that's what you're after. Since you are sorting by the first field anyway, why bother with the 8 character restriction? I'd think that just adding @list = sort @list; before your printing loop should do what you want.

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Re: Re: Where am I going wrong ? by caciqueman (Novice) on Oct 29, 2001 at 22:31 UTC
Thanks, this worked: `@list = sort @list;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re (3): Where am I going wrong ? by dmmiller2k (Chaplain) on Oct 30, 2001 at 01:51 UTC
Not to beat a dead horse too much, but is there any reason not to simply sort the list as it's read (which conserves memory, if THAT matters here)? To wit: `open DATABASE, $mydata or die "Can't open $mydata: $!\n"; flock DATABASE, LOCK_EX or die "Can't lock $mydata: $!\n"; my @list = sort <DATABASE>; # NOTE ^^^^ close DATABASE; # which also unlocks it` [download] dmm You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day ... Or, you can teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime	[reply] [d/l]