in reply to Double Sort Rephrased
in thread Double Sort on a file

Funny, I've just been working on something similar to this.

Your problem sounds perfect for the Sort::Fields module. It does reverse or numeric sorts on what ever columns you specify. 

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Re: Re: Double Sort Rephrased
by rchou2 (Novice) on Jul 23, 2002 at 00:49 UTC
    I don't have the latest version of perl, is there any other way around this?
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      Earlier than the module's required 5.003_03? Ouch! I don't think so. Time to take that washboard in for a new model. 
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