rjoost:

I'm going to agree with moritz. If you're having that much trouble figuring it out, then how will you be able to debug it or modify it three months from now? It's far too easy to make code that's hard to maintain.

I'd suggest making a subroutine that will chop up the line and return a hash reference, then you can use map to call your subroutine:

my %sorted_msgs = map { $_[5], $_[0] }
                  sort { Date_Cmp($a->[1], $b->[1]) }
                  map { crunchit($_) } @matched_lines;

sub crunchit {
   ...
}

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By the way, since you're calling your hash %sorted_msgs, shouldn't your sort be on $_[5] rather than $_[1], or perhaps your hash key should be $_[1]? Otherwise, you won't actually have a sorted list of messages, would you? (Or are you simply trying to ensure that later entries overlay earlier entries?)

...roboticus

In reply to Re: Using map to convert an array into a hash of array of arrays by roboticus
in thread Using map to convert an array into a hash of array of arrays by rjoost

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