This is kind of fun. It is not pretty and it fails for muba who has bizzarly entered a bet in January 2005 but for the reasonable problem space (Sep .. Dec 2005) it works.

perl -ne's/ (\d) / 0$1 /;@d=(split)[2..5];$d[0]=~tr/SOND/1234/;push@g,"@d$;$_";END{print$/;print map{(split/$;/)[1]}sort @g}'

Copy the list from the web page, run the perl, paste the list, hit enter and CTRL-D, or redirect a file with the guess list to the script.

# some (ugly) output
poqui   Mon Sep 26 11:27:30 2005 GMT    Tue Sep 20 16:01:00 2005 GMT
tstanley        Thu Sep 29 02:44:00 2005 GMT    Sun Sep 25 12:01:23 20
+05 GMT
etm117  Mon Oct 03 14:05:00 2005 GMT    Tue Sep 20 10:30:14 2005 GMT
sithsasquatch   Wed Oct 05 12:34:25 2005 GMT    Mon Sep 26 21:56:28 20
+05 GMT
blazar  Thu Oct 06 18:03:39 2005 GMT    Tue Sep 20 10:50:45 2005 GMT
radiantmatrix   Fri Oct 07 10:31:00 2005 GMT    Wed Sep 21 19:14:08 20
+05 GMT
castaway        Mon Oct 10 11:11:00 2005 GMT    Tue Sep 20 10:14:12 20
+05 GMT
wazoox  Mon Oct 10 14:00:00 2005 GMT    Thu Sep 22 14:10:42 2005 GMT
jcoxen  Mon Oct 10 17:56:00 2005 GMT    Tue Sep 20 16:06:19 2005 GMT

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update

perl -ne's/ (\d) / 0$1 /;@d=(split)[2..5];$d[0]=~tr/SOND/1234/;push@g,"@d$;$_";END{print$/;print map{s/.*$;//;$_}sort@g}'

Cheers,
R.

Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!

In reply to Re^4: When will the 500.000th node appear? by Random_Walk
in thread When will the 500.000th node appear? by castaway

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