On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:25:52PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:15:56PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > Did you mean like this?
> >
> > tie my %scores, 'Tie::Hash::Rank';
> > [overengineering snipped]
>
> Or you could do it in two lines:
>
> my $i;
> my %rank = map { $_ => ++$i } sort {$scores{$a} <=> $scores{$b}} keys %scores;
Ah, but those don't do the same do they. You have to regenerate your
rankings whenever you add a new score, whereas mine lets you get the rankings
directly from the hash. Of course, it makes it impossible to retrieve the
scores themselves.
EINSUFFICIENTLYSPECIFIEDPROBLEM :-)
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