#! perl use strict; use warnings; use feature 'switch'; { my %h; populate (\%h); stringify (\%h); print_view(\%h); } sub populate { my ($h) = @_; while () { my ($date, $type, $word) = split /\s+\|\s+/; chomp $word; unless (exists $h->{$date}) { $h->{$date}{woody_words} = []; $h->{$date}{tinny_words} = []; } given ($type) { when ('woody') { push @{ $h->{$date}{woody_words} }, $word; } when ('tinny') { push @{ $h->{$date}{tinny_words} }, $word; } default { warn "Datum '$word' of unknown type '$type'"; } } } } sub stringify { my ($h) = @_; for (keys %$h) { $h->{$_}{woody_str} = join(', ', sort @{ $h->{$_}{woody_words} }); $h->{$_}{tinny_str} = join(', ', sort @{ $h->{$_}{tinny_words} }); } } sub print_view { my ($h) = @_; my $max = 0; for (keys %$h) { my $woody_str = $h->{$_}{woody_str}; my $new_length = length $woody_str; $max = $new_length if defined $woody_str && $new_length > $max; } printf " date | %-*s | tinny words\n", $max, 'woody words'; printf "-------------+-%s-+-------------\n", '-' x $max; printf "%s %-*s %s\n", $_, $max, $h->{$_}{woody_str}, $h->{$_}{tinny_str} for sort { cmp_dates() } keys %$h; } { my %months; BEGIN { %months = (Jan => 1, Feb => 2, Mar => 3, Apr => 4, May => 5, Jun => 6, Jul => 7, Aug => 8, Sep => 9, Oct => 10, Nov => 11, Dec => 12); } sub cmp_dates { my ($day_a, $mon_a) = $a =~ /^(\d{1,2}) (\w{3})/; my ($day_b, $mon_b) = $b =~ /^(\d{1,2}) (\w{3})/; return ($months{$mon_a} < $months{$mon_b}) ? -1 : ($months{$mon_a} > $months{$mon_b}) ? +1 : ($day_a < $day_b) ? -1 : ($day_a > $day_b) ? +1 : 0; } } __DATA__ 28 Sep (Fri) | woody | caribou 28 Sep (Fri) | tinny | litterbin 29 Sep (Sat) | woody | wasp 29 Sep (Sat) | woody | yowling 29 Sep (Sat) | woody | gorn 30 Sep (Sun) | woody | intercourse 30 Sep (Sun) | woody | bound 30 Sep (Sun) | woody | pert 30 Sep (Sun) | tinny | newspaper 01 Oct (Mon) | woody | ocelot 01 Oct (Mon) | woody | concubine 01 Oct (Mon) | tinny | antelope 02 Oct (Tue) | woody | vole 02 Oct (Tue) | woody | sausage 03 Oct (Wed) | tinny | recidivist 03 Oct (Wed) | tinny | tit