Hello Monks,

i m trying to use ST on a big file with many records separated by '|'.I need to build the key dynamically as there are many queries, though the keys(can go max to 30) for a query would be same.The data to be sorted looks like :-

12312.123|John|johon07@yahoo.com||Sunnyvalle California US|<200010>

24.23|Sam|Sam04@yahoo.com||Hong Kong|<200020>

123123124.123|Tina|tina2007@gmail.com||London|<100030>

123124.123|Lucas|Lucas_fighter2025@yahoo.com||New York US|<200040>

since i want to generalize the sort subroutine how do i construct the sort sub that would first find the type of the key and then contruct the sort expression that would run on a list.

Thanks

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