----- Original Message -----
From: Beast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 1:59 pm
Subject: sorting?
> Hi,
>
> I have some rather big chunk of data, returned from ldap server.
> The
> format is simple:
> "Displa name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Simply displying data "as is" is simple, but how do I sorted by
> "display name"?
> pls note that "display name" contains space and might not unique so
> I
Store your data in forms of Array of Array then sort it.
For example:
my @AoA = (["foo woo","[EMAIL PROTECTED]"],
["bar woz","[EMAIL PROTECTED]"],
["foo qux", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"],);
foreach my $disp_name ( sort {$a->[0] <=> $b->[0]} @AoA ) {
# do whatever you like
}
Read more on Perl's data structure in perldoc:
perldoc perldsc
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Edward WIJAYA
SINGAPORE
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