Why not use the DB to process your sort?
todd.
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Derrick (Thrawn01) wrote:
> I setup an multidimetional array of data. ( I loading data base files into
> memory.)
> I wan't to sort the records by field 0
> But when I sort this referenced array ( multidimetional array ) I get an out
> of memory error.
>
> There are 80 or so records and each record has 20 fields each field varies
> but none are larger than 20 char.
>
> Why am I getting an out of memory I have 10mb of free RAM!! And plenty of
> swap space!!
> OR a better question would be. can I do this differently? if so. how ?
>
> Any help would be VERY much appreciated!!!
>
>
> @sorted = sort { $data[$a] [0] <=> $data[$b] [0] } @data;
>
> print $cgi_obj->header;
> print $cgi_obj->start_html($theatre);
> print "<table border=1 width=500>\n";
>
> foreach $array_ref (@sorted)
> {
> print @$array_ref;
> }
>
> print "</table>\n";
>
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