This should get close to what you want. It uses the GRT method of prepending the sort key to the string prior to sorting and stripping it afterwards.

To generate the sort key, it extracts the domain name from the url, splits it on '.' and reverses the order of the sub-components.

Ie. http://news.bbc.co.uk/something.htm

Becomes uk.co.bbc.newshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/something.htm

This will group .gov.uk together with .co.uk etc. It will also group numeric urls by their quads in the correct order, though they won't be in strictly numeric order as given. Adding code in the sort block to handle this wouldn't be too hard if its a requirement.

#! perl -slw use strict; open IN, '<links.dat' or die $!; chomp( my @links = <IN> ); close IN; @links = grep m[^\w+://], @links; # remove relative urls. my @sorted = map{ substr($_, 1+index($_, $;)); } sort map{ m[\w+://([^/]+)/]; join( '.', reverse split /\./, $1 ) . $; . $_; } @links; print for @sorted;

You might also consider adding the protocol to the end of the sort key if any of your urls are non-http links.


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In reply to Re: Sorting URLs on domain/host: sortkeys generation by BrowserUk
in thread Sorting URLs on domain/host: sortkeys generation by parv

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