On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 10:03:23AM -0400, Jeff Pinyan wrote: > On Jul 23, abigail@foad.org said: > > > map {(split /\0/) [-1]} > > sort > > map {join "\0" => key1, ... , keyn, value} > > Depending on the size of 'n', would the first map be better off as: > > map /\0([^\0]*)$/, Or even map {substr $_ => 1 + rindex $_ => "\0"} > (especially if value happens to be an empty string, since the split would > remove the empty trailing fields...). That can also be solved with map {(split /\0/ => $_, -1) [-1]} Abigail ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe