Re: sort a table

2003-01-30 Thread Carl Jolley
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Andrew Mansfield wrote: > Thanks for the tips about command line arguments, working great.. > > however I'm faced with another problem in which walking thru my O'Reilly > books & perldocs isn't made clear enough for me.. > > I have a list of data read in from a text file in wh

Re: sort a table

2003-01-29 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 1/29/2003 1:14 PM, Joseph P. Discenza wrote: Andrew Mansfield wrote, on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 13:00 : I have a list of data read in from a text file in which each line has the : following format: : : time status type first_name last_name machine_name : : where each value is separated by

RE: sort a table

2003-01-29 Thread Joseph P. Discenza
Andrew Mansfield wrote, on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 13:00 : I have a list of data read in from a text file in which each line has the : following format: : : time status type first_name last_name machine_name : : where each value is separated by a space. I want to do a multi-sort by the : vari