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Re: sorting dates in YYYYMMDD format

by 2teez (Vicar)
on Jul 04, 2013 at 07:12 UTC ( [id://1042349]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to sorting dates in YYYYMMDD format

Hi learner@perl,
Since your output 20130501 20130401 20130601 is the same with what you want what 20130501 20130401 20130601 what next? You have solved your own problems. Except your expected output is different.

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Re^2: sorting dates in YYYYMMDD format
by learner@perl (Novice) on Jul 04, 2013 at 07:17 UTC
    Hi Masters.

    I solved the problem

    @dates = ('20130601', '20130401', '20130501'); my @sorted = map $_->[0], sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] } map [ $_, join('', (/(..)(..)(....)/)[0,1,2]) ], @dates; # DD-MM-YYYY print "@sorted\n";

    Output

    20130401 20130501 20130601

    Thanks all

      Do you realize, that

      join('', (/(..)(..)(....)/)[0,1,2])

      does not change a string $_ of length 8 in any way? (Apart from burning CPU cycles...). The regex also does not fit very well when splitting YYYYMMDD into pieces.

        Yes, but the real strings that have to be sorted may not be that easy, containing e.g. rubbish at start, or some punctuation, or - worse - be of different, yet regexpable format. (I don't know for sure, just a thought).

      ..I solved the problem..
      Good... but why not just use sort just as you have been told previously on this post.
      Yes your regexes matched successfully, see

      but even at that it a lot of work.
      However, if you must use "Schwartzian transform", you can sort on the month, since the year is the same like this:
      use warnings; use strict; my @dates = ('20130601', '20130401', '20130501'); print join ' ' => map{$_->[0]} sort{$a->[1] <=> $b->[1]} map{/.{4}(.{2})/;[$_,$1]} @dates;
      But sincerely, for this use sort just like other monks told you.

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