Trying to write some code that will sort a bunch of log entries by date. It will run like this:
        cat crap | mysort > sorted_crap

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Since there are many log entries per second, the plan is to push each entry on to an array keyed by the unix time, then print each entry for (sort %bighash). Here's what I have:
$log_entries = {};
while ( <STDIN> ) {

    # Date string looky like: "06/Apr/2001:08:30:05"
    /(\d{2}\/\w{3}\/\d{4}\:\d{2}\:\d{2}\:\d{2})/;

    $secs = parsedate($&);
    push @{$log_entries->{$secs}}, $_; 
    
}

foreach $key (sort %$log_entries) {
    foreach $entry (@{$log_entries->{$key}}) {
        print $entry;
    }
}

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This all goes to hell when the size of crap gets real big, ie, Out of memory!. Can anyone suggest a more efficient solution?

In reply to memory monster by ok

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