in reply to Shrink this sort subroutine

dude! as long as you 0 pad your numbers, a plain sort will work on those dates!

Update Sorry, just realized a plain sort won't quite work, but a simple hash sort should...
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Re: Re: Shrink this sort subroutine
by donfreenut (Sexton) on Apr 24, 2001 at 22:33 UTC

    Um, unless I misunderstand your definition of 'zero pad,'I tried that first, and it didn't work. The numbers are already zero-padded to the YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format.

    Am I misinterpreting?

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    donfreenut
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      '2000-02-23 01:30:06' would be an example of zero padded... '2000-2-23 1:30:6 would be non zero padded
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