Hello experts, Im a Perl newbie and Im looking for a way to compare rows returned in a sql statement and keep the row with the most current date. Below is a simplified version of the rows and also a copy of the code I wrote but it doesnt work. 
ID               Date
13               10102005
13               09152005
13               11052005
200              11012005
200              11152004

Here's the code I wrote:
foreach $data1(@data_241) {
    @compare1 = split($data1);
    foreach $data2(@data_241) {
        @compare2 = split($data2);
        if ($compare1[0] == $compare2[1]) {
            if ($compare1[1] > $compare2[2]) {
                print NEW "@compare1";
            }
        }
    }
}

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So in the example, I need to keep only ID 13 with a date of 11052005 and ID 200 with the date 11012005. Thanks in advance....

In reply to Comparing rows keeping latest by Anonymous Monk

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