Given a list of dates, to calculate a corresponding list of ordinals I might do something like the following:

# Make a list of tuples: (index, date)
my @list = map { [ $_, $dates[$_] ] } (0..$#dates);

# Sort the list by date
@list = sort { Date_Cmp($a->[1], $b->[1]) } @list;

# Determine the corresponding ordinal numbers
my @ordinals;
foreach (0..$#dates) {
    $ordinals[ $list[$_]->[0] ] = $_ + 1;
}

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I don't find this very elegant - there may be much better ways. There may be a module that does this, though I don't know one.

In reply to Re^3: Need help comparing 4 dates by ig
in thread Need help comparing 4 dates by dirtdog

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