Dear monks

I have a small set of records (like a table) stored in an array. I need to sort the array alphabetiacally according to the values in one particolar row. The array structure *should* be something like this

sentence1 attribute1 value1
sentence2 attribute2 value2
sentence3 attribute3 value3

What is wrong with this?


foreach my $sentence(@sentences){
#$attribute and $values come from other subrutines
push(@array, ($sentence, $attribute, $value)); 
}

my $selected_order=1;#order according to $attribute
sort { $a->[$selected_order] cmp $b->[$selected_order] } @array;
print @array;

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I think, I'm confusing something with the array...

UPDATE: the problem is of course the array. Looking at it's content with use Data::Dumper; it clearly shows that the intended table structure is not mantained...

In reply to sort array table by welle

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