Bman70 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Dear monks,
Is there any way to take a block of text that includes different Chapter names, and then sort all of the text so that the Chapter names are in alphabetic order, while keeping the correct text with each Chapter?
Example of the text I'm trying to sort:
Chapter One There were lots of monkeys here and they ate all the bananas... lots more text up to hundreds of words. Chapter Nine This chapter has probably 1000 words. Chapter Two Here is the text in the second chapter... Chapter Five Here is the text in the fifth chapter... every chapter is of differing length, some long some short.
What I would want is to sort these chapters to be in Alphabetical order.. they don't need to be in order numerically. I just want to know if there's a sort function that can arrange each title in order while preserving the text associated with each title. Resulting in something like:
Chapter Five Here is the text in the fifth chapter... every chapter is of differing length, some long some short. Chapter Nine This chapter has probably 1000 words. Chapter One There were lots of monkeys here and they ate all the bananas... lots more text up to hundreds of words. Chapter Two Here is the text in the second chapter...
The text is all in a text file. There are some newlines and a mix of letters and numbers.
Thank you for any tips you can offer.
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