-----Original Message----- From: Brian Volk Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:10 AM To: 'Brian Franco' Subject: RE: sort files by creation time
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Franco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 7:34 PM To: Brian Volk Subject: Re: sort files by creation time This will load @ARGV with the files in the current directory sorted oldest -> newest: @ARGV = map $_->[0], sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] } map [ $_, -M ], grep -f, # get only plain files <*>; How it works is left as an exercise for the reader :-) Thank you! And I think I just bought the book that explains the above! Alpaca! Soon to find out! Thanks again. Brian Volk Brian, whats the name of the book? -Brian The book is called Learning Perl Objects References and Modules. It is the follow up to Learning Perl. Learning Perl is also known as the Llama and the follow up is known as the Alpaca. Randal L. Schwartz wrote both books and the part I was referring to is actually named after him. Schwartzian transform. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartzian_transform Hope this helps. Brian Volk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
