if you can get the data into an array of arrays, the following would work very nicely.
There is probably a nicer way to do the loop, than a foreach though.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my @array = (
['foo', 1, 'zot'],
['foo', 2, 'blahblah'],
['bar', 1, 'zot'],
['bar', 2, 'zot'],
['bat', 1, 'blahblah'],
['bat', 2, ''],
['baz', 1, ''],
['baz', 2, 'zot'],
);
my @sorted;
foreach my $array (@array){
($array->[2] eq 'blahblah' ? unshift @sorted, $array : push @sorted,
+ $array);
}
--eric
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