Re: [Fun With Perl] Everything should be kept as simple aspossible...

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 20:13 -0400 06/17/1999, Steve Willer wrote:
>What is wrong with this?
>
>  cat names.txt|sed 's/||/, /g'|sort +0 +1


It's a Perl list :-)

Maybe he wanted something as part of other code...
Maybe he's not on Unix (the question did come from the MacPerl list :-)

>there's someting to be said for a nice, simple pipe. My single-line pipe
>does a more correct sort than the perl equivalents you posted because it
>sorts last name before first, rather than sorting the line as a whole.

Given that the result is the same... why is this "more correct"? :)

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