Dear monks,

Let me be clear with my question this time. I am new to perl and still
+ managed to code many things in it. That shows how simple yet effecti
+ve language perl is!


I have a csv file with following contents.

"Add workflow, Delete workflow",resource1,Sat 04/25/09,manager1
"Updateworkflow, Delete workflow",resource2,Wed 04/15/09,manager2
"Retrieve workflow, Delete workflow",resource3,Sat 04/25/09,manager3
"Add workflow, Delete workflow",resource4,Wed 03/25/09,manager4
"Add workflow",resource5,Tue 04/14/09,manager5

I need this csv file to be sorted and the sorted file should be like t
+his:

"Add workflow, Delete workflow",resource4,Wed 03/25/09,manager4
"Add workflow",resource5,Tue 04/14/09,manager5
"Updateworkflow, Delete workflow",resource2,Wed 04/15/09,manager2
"Add workflow, Delete workflow",resource1,Sat 04/25/09,manager1
"Retrieve workflow, Delete workflow",resource3,Sat 04/25/09,manager3



Can anyone help me accomplish this without using any modules? If it ca
+n't be done without using any modules, then pls let me know which mod
+ule to use and how do we install it?
I have perl 5.6.0 in my HP box. 

~Manjunath
Alcatel-Lucent

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In reply to sort csv file on "date" column by mbm

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