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Re: [MacPerl] sorting arrays
At 16:25 -0700 06/17/1999, Vicki Brown wrote:
>At 16:26 -0400 6/17/99, Richard Gordon wrote:
> > do, what's wrong with:
> >
> > @fields = <INFILE>;
> > s/\|\|/, /g;
> > print sort @fields;
>
>This is both elegant and simple.
For those who don't subscribe to the "Fun With Perl" mailing list,
herewith Randal Schwartz' entry into our little discussion:
@ARGV = qw(names.txt);
print sort <>;
It doesn't handle converting the || to , (why not just change the
data, hmm?) but for simple and elegant... I find it difficult to beat.
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