hash of hashes-- preserve insertion order

2003-01-17 Thread James S. Martin
I have a multi-level hash (about 4 hashes deep) and I want to keep the insertion order of the keys in which it was created. I've tried use Tie::IxHash but it doesn't seem to handle the keys in the sub-hashes. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, James ___

comparing two arrays, removing elements

2002-03-01 Thread James S. Martin
Hi all, I'm having a logic gap in my code.. Can't quite figure out the best way to do this. I have two arrays.. Each item in the array has some comma seperated values. The first value is the beginning name of the file, the second value is the standard 10 digit date stamp where the larger th

sorting sub

2001-12-10 Thread James S. Martin
Hello, I'm having problems with this subroutine I'm working. What it is supposed to do is find the newest file (the date stamp from the file, collected in a different sub) from a list of files with the same name. My logic is to go through the listing of files, and for each item in the array,