Re: Associative Array Trouble

If you have Unix-like tools you could do ...

$ cat test.txt | sed -e's/\(.*\) \(.*\)/\2,\1/g' | sort
Brown,Jim
Payton,Walter
Sanders,Barry
Smith,Emmitt
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•Re: Re: Associative Array Trouble by merlyn (Sage) on May 23, 2002 at 00:18 UTC
`cat test.txt \| sed -e's/$.$ $.$/\2,\1/g' \| sort` [download] And that would be not only a Useless Use of Cat, but not taking advantage of `sort`'s field sorting abilities either: `$ sort +1 -2 +0 -1 <test.txt >output.txt` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l] [select]
OT Re: •Re: Re: Associative Array Trouble by rbc (Curate) on May 23, 2002 at 16:46 UTC
Hmmm ... maybe we can have a golf game? What would be shorter a shell script or a perl script? My money would be on the shell script. What do you think merlyn?	[reply]

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•Re: Re: Associative Array Trouble by merlyn (Sage) on May 23, 2002 at 00:18 UTC
`cat test.txt \| sed -e's/\(.\) \(.\)/\2,\1/g' \| sort` [download] And that would be not only a Useless Use of Cat, but not taking advantage of `sort`'s field sorting abilities either: `$ sort +1 -2 +0 -1 <test.txt >output.txt` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l] [select]
OT Re: •Re: Re: Associative Array Trouble by rbc (Curate) on May 23, 2002 at 16:46 UTC
Hmmm ... maybe we can have a golf game? What would be shorter a shell script or a perl script? My money would be on the shell script. What do you think merlyn?	[reply]