Re: MARC::Record ordering of fields

2005-05-14 Thread Bruce Van Allen
On 5/14/05 Leif Andersson wrote: It is funny, I started with a Schwartzian transform, but thought to myself why not simplify the code?. Not realizing it is a performance gain. I have always thought of it only as a means to do more complicated sorts. ... Funny, once more, is that one member of this

Re: MARC::Record ordering of fields

2005-05-14 Thread Brad Baxter
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Bruce Van Allen wrote: If you haven't seen it, you might be interested in the packed-default sort described by Uri Guttman and Larry Rosler, and now usually refered to as the Guttman-Rosler sort. For their original paper, see:

MARC::Record ordering of fields

2005-05-13 Thread Leif Andersson
How would you do to re-order the fields in a MARC::Record-record? I just needed that kind of thing and after some struggeling came up with: @{$record-{_fields}} = sort { lc($a-{_tag}) cmp lc($b-{_tag}) } @{$record-{_fields}}; It seems to work, but I am