Re: Sorting comma-delimited records

[vladb]

You can store your records in a hash (just as Beatnik pointed out :) using each record's second field for the key.

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my @a = qw(foo:baz:faz foo:bar:fuss);
my %h= map{ (split(/\:/,$_))[1] => $_ } @a; 
print Dumper(\%h); 

# to force a '\n' printed after each array element.
$,="\n"; 

print @h{keys %h};

Getting them inside a hash will assure that your records are sorted by the second field in alphabetical order. Here's the output:

$VAR1 = {
          'bar' => 'foo:bar:fuss',
          'baz' => 'foo:baz:faz'
        };
foo:bar:fuss
foo:baz:faz

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+- $1"}&&`rm $1`;
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