Re: criteria based array sorting

Update: fixed typo's

Well to complete this thread, I started digging around in the old nodes, and came across Language::MySort by japhy at Language::MySort.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Language::MySort;

my @order = ('s'..'z','a'..'r','R'..'Z','A'..'Q');
print q(order-> 's'..'z','a'..'r','R'..'Z','A'..'Q'),"\n";

*my_sort = lang_sort(@order);

my @needs_sorting = qw(Psdgs ldfgs Esdds aSdg Sgsdfs zdef Xrty Msdb es
+df sgfsdfg Osgr T);
print join ',',@needs_sorting,"\n";

my @sorted = my_sort(@needs_sorting);
print join ',',@sorted,"\n";
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OUTPUT:
order-> 'r'..'z','a'..'s','R'..'Z','A'..'Q'
Psdgs,ldfgs,Esdds,aSdg,Sgsdfs,zdef,Xrty,Msdb,esdf,sgfsdfg,Osgr,T,
sgfsdfg,zdef,aSdg,esdf,ldfgs,Sgsdfs,T,Xrty,Esdds,Msdb,Osgr,Psdgs,
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Re: Re: criteria based array sorting by Willard B. Trophy (Hermit) on Feb 13, 2004 at 18:23 UTC
I'm a big fan of Sort::ArbBiLex, myself. It's not quite the perfect lexical sort module, but it'll do for 99.995% of the population. -- bowling trophy thieves, die!	[reply]
Re: Re: criteria based array sorting by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Feb 13, 2004 at 21:13 UTC
zentara, It appears you have a typo in that there is an overlap with 'r'..'z' and 'a'..'s' but it shouldn't cause a problem. Personally, I would steal a page from broquaint's bag of tricks: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @unsorted = ( qw (Psdf lPik Easd aKwe SSdf eqwer scfgh Oegb rqwer T +) ); my %order = map {$_ => /[r-z]/ ? 'A' : /[a-q]/ ? 'B' : /[R-Z]/ ? 'C' : + 'D'} ('a'..'z', 'A'..'Z'); my @sorted = map { substr($_ , 1) } sort map { $order{ substr($_,0,1) } . $_ } @unsorted; print "$_\n" for @sorted;` [download] Cheers - L~R	[reply] [d/l]