foreach ( @lines )
{
    my @cells = split ;
    push @data, \@cells ;
}

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I wouldn't exactly be showing this to a newbie. As the original poster pointed out, he has "never even programmed", I have been using perl for about two years, and I still have some problems with references..

maybe building a hash with original lines as keys and specific column as values would be easier to understand (but maybe harder on the memory, depends on how big is the list.) don't you agree?

He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Re: Re: Sorting big text lists by Chady
in thread Sorting big text lists by Infinity

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