Hello,

This must be easy. But I've not yet enough experience with Perl's control
structures.

perl mysort.pl infile.txt > outfile.txt

The stack of numbers with colons below reside within infile.txt

120:2
126:2
13:15
140:3
14:3
141:3
14:3
15:11

My task or goal is to get each of them lines over into outfile.txt (as re
ordered lines) with all of the \d\d: (2 digits then colon) up at top of file
then with the 3 digits colon underneath

How to set up a twice through instead of only 1 pass through of the
infile.txt?  (and get all of the 2digits on 1st pass, then get all of the 3
digits on second pass)?  Or, same task/goal done even yet a different way is
ok too.

#!/perl/bin/perl -w
# mysort.pl
while ($line = <>) {
    if ($line =~ m/\b\d\d(?=:)/) {
    print $line;
        if ($line =~ m/\b\d\d\d(?=:)/) {
        print $line;
        }
    }
}

That above gets/snags all the 2 digits only. There's no 3 digits to
outfile.txt

--
Thanks.  Alan.




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