Re: perl or awk??? ... that is the question ...

[Chas. Owens]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:15, John W. Krahn<jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote:
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> The OP said they want to sort "by col2" so that should be sort { $a->[1] cmp
> $b->[1] }
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Yeah, I didn't read closely enough.

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> Or perhaps a GRT instead:
>
> perl -le'print for map join( "", reverse /(\S+)(\s+)(\S+)/ ), sort map join(
> "", reverse /(\S+)(\s+)(\S+)/ ), <>' filename
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For those not familiar with the Guttman Rosler Transform (GRT for
short), here is an article on it:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=145659

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