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sort utility key specificationby BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Apr 21, 2012 at 13:16 UTC ( [id://966354]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
BrowserUk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: I'm writing a sort utility. I need to decide how keys should be specified on the command line. I'm looking for two pieces of guidance:
My current thinking is that there will be two different, mutually exclusive key specification switches:
To save time, my response to "Why not use the same switch format as gnu sort?". Because I find them ambiguous, verbose and inflexible. Thanks for your time. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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