Fellow Perl Monks,

I again am in need of your help again. I may not have the best approach, but I will try my best to explain what I am trying to do. I have a directory of text files with information in each of them. I did the easiest part which was to read the directory and each file for specific information and wrote it to one file for further manipulation.

Now that I have this one file I have read it into an array which I will need to now sort by the fourth subscript (array[3]) which is the date field. I know I could make it my first field, but I arranged the fields by order of importance.

I have read and even attemped a few of the examples in the previous write ups, but have had no success. I am using a tab as my delimiter which shouldn't make a difference. Here is a snippet of my code. 
for (@links) {
my ($status, $reference, $project, $created) = split(/\t/, $_);
    if ($status eq "Completed") {
        push(@complete, $_);
    } else {
        push(@progress, $_);
    }
}

my @sortedComplete = sort { $a->[3] <=> $b->[3] } @complete;
my @sortedProgress = sort { $a->[3] <=> $b->[3] } @progress;

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The four fields are defined after the declaration of my for loop. I would greatly appreciate your help. All I need is to keep all of the rows as is, but sorted by the date the project was created.

Thank you all,
Bionicle32

In reply to Sorting a slurped file by a date field by bionicle32

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