Re: SORTING BY DATE

2001-08-06 Thread Peter Scott
[Removed beginners-cgi list; this ha nothing to do with CGIs.] At 04:24 PM 8/6/01 +0930, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: >Does any one know the best way of sortig by YEAR MONTH DAY? > >I would like my script to dispalay 20010327 which is YEAR 2001 MONTH 10 and >DAY 27 A little experimentation should co

RE: SORTING BY DATE

2001-08-06 Thread Chris Rogers
If your data is already in the format shown below as yearmonthday, then a standard sort would do just fine: @test =(20010327, 20001113, 20011225, 19991231, 20100115); foreach (sort @test) { print "$_\n"; } Output will be: 19991231 20010327 20011225 20100115 On the other hand, you may want a

RE: SORTING BY DATE

2001-08-06 Thread Peter Scott
At 11:41 AM 8/6/01 -0400, Chris Rogers wrote: >If your data is already in the format shown below as yearmonthday, then a >standard sort would do just fine: > >@test =(20010327, 20001113, 20011225, 19991231, 20100115); >foreach (sort @test) Doh, I should have realized that this data also sorts asc

Explaining myself correctly RE: SORTING BY DATE

2001-08-06 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
List, Please accept my sicerest apologies for not explaining myself correctly in my last post (RE: SORTING BY DATE). What I really need to be able to do is have my script display the date as YEAR () MONTH (xx) DAY (xx) For egsamle todays date would be displayed as 20010807 At the moment

RE: Explaining myself correctly RE: SORTING BY DATE

2001-08-06 Thread Matt Crapo
from the raw values supplied by localtime before you do this. Good luck! Matt -Original Message- From: Daniel Falkenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 5:05 PM To: Beginners (E-mail) Subject: Explaining myself correctly RE: SORTING BY DATE List, Please accept my sic