OK Guys here is the issue...
I have a flatfile DB type thing going on... it is a tab delimited file. The row I am trying to sort on is the 5 section.
It is a time such as 9:00 AM or 2:00 PM... Now I need to list this in chronological (spelling) order...
so it will look like this:
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
2:00 PM
9:00 PM
This is my current sort code:
foreach $_ (sort { (split /\t/, $a)[4] cmp (split /\t/, $b)[4] } @data
+base_in) {
.....
}
This is fine however it lists it in numercial order only so 1:00 AM
2:00 PM
9:00 AM
How can I make this so it displays it correctly??
Also I need to make it so that in case the user who filles out my form puts the time in as say 09:00 AM it will still list it in the correct position...
Thanks :)
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