At 21:22 -0700 6/17/99, Vicki Brown wrote: > 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. and buggy :-( Sorry, gang. I goofed. Peter is right. I didn't try it... on a quick inspection it _looked_ like other versions I had recently been seeing. I still like Randal's thought :-) Even though the resulting sort is, sadly, imperfect. -- -- |\ _,,,---,,_ Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com> ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Journeyman Sourceror: Scripts & Philtres |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' P.O. Box 1269 San Bruno CA 94066 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) http://www.cfcl.com/~vlb http://www.macperl.org ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org