Monksters,

I'm running into some problems moving around within the contents of some records that are getting sorted by a Schwartzian Transform. All of the contents of @records (below) are about a dozen lines long. Somewhere between the 10th and 12th lines there will be an "area = decimal.number" pattern. All I want to do is grab that decimal number without explicity referencing a line number. How do I do that?

In the example below, I am specifying the 10th line must be split by the pattern "area = ", and then the number in the 1 address is saved for sorting. How do I capture the number after "area = " without relying on a line number?

Many thanks in advance!

Regards,
-fiddler42
use strict;

my @sortrecs = map { $_->[0] }
                  sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
                  map { [ $_, (split /area\s+=\s+/,$_->[9])[1] ] }
                  @records;

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