On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 01:03 , Eric Wang wrote:
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> I have this flat text file with numbers in it.
> I tried to use the sort routine but it seems like the numbers were not
> sorted at all.
a) how did you get the 'numbers' out of the file?
b) what was the specific syntax you used to get the
data you read out of the file into the 'sort routine'
c) having sorted the data, did we mean to put the data back
into the file.....
please do take the following with the 'tongue in cheek' that
it was somewhat flippantly written with....
http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/bloopers/sortNumsFromFile.pl
it's that, well.... some days it is better to laugh than to cry.
ciao
drieux
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