OK, I finally got a chance to try this. It works a treat, but I cannot for the life of me wrap my head around how and why, and I hate using code I can't understand (for several reasons). I'm OK until:

print "$_,$key" for
        map { $_->[1] }
        sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] }
        map { [ split /:/, $myHash{$key}{info}[$_], 2 ] }
        0 .. $#{$myHash{$key}{info}};

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Is there a way to write that as a more C-style for loop, even if it's pseudo-code, or is that the only way it will work? I don't follow the flow as-is, and my attempt to rewrite it ended up with only printing indices of the array. I'm also having trouble following the map { } statements, but hopefully if I can grok the way the loop is working the rest will start to make a little more sense.

Thanks again.

In reply to Re^2: sorting logfiles by timestamp by jasonl
in thread sorting logfiles by timestamp by jasonl

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