my aim is to sort these strings representing jobs (extract from TNG scheduler):
JOB ID=EX1J DESC='JOB1'
JOB ID=EX2J DESC='JOB2'
JOB ID=EX3J DESC='JOB3'
JOB ID=EX4J DESC='JOB3'
EX4J PRED EX2J
EX3J PRED EX1J
EX4J PRED EX1J
in order to sort in human way: 
EX1J    desc JOB1
EX2J    desc JOB2
EX3J    desc JOB3    PRED EX1J
EX4J    desc JOB3    PRED EX1J, EX2J
thanks for answering to my first post ..

In reply to Best way to sort these strings ? recursive way ? use Parse::RecDescent? by bertigo

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