Hi all,

I have one requirement of sorting array elements based on date.

The date format is as follows,

"Aug 8 12:12:13"
"Jan 1 21:01:03"

I have written the following code to perform this task,

perl -MDate::Manip -e '@arr=("Aug 8 12:12:13","Jan 1 21:01:03",
"Aug 8 12:12:14","Aug 7 09:12:10");
print   map {$_->[0],"\n" } sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] } 
map {my $c=ParseDateString($_);$c=~s/://g;[$_,$c]} @arr'

Aug 8 12:12:14
Aug 8 12:12:13
Aug 7 09:12:10
Jan 1 21:01:03

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This works for me, but im looking for an alternative which is more effecient or better than mine.

Thanks,

~suhail

In reply to sort based on date by suhailck

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