Hi Chris,
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:31:49 -0600
Chris Stinemetz <chrisstinem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would someone kindly advise me in sorting this array:
>
> my @array = qw(c r v vr tr re c.p[1] c.p[3] c.p[2] c.p[4] c.p[7]
> c.p[6] c.p[5] c.p[8] c.t[1] c.t[3] c.t[2]);
>
> I only want to sort the elements that have a numeric value inside the
> braces so that all the other elements have their original index
> preserved.
You have not defined *how* you wish to sort the elements that have a numeric
value inside the square brackets, so I assume a simple lexicographical sort
(which should be easy to change to any other sort).
What I would do is filter the indexes of the relevant items from @array, sort
them and then re-assign the items. Here is some tested code for that:
[CODE]
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my @array = qw(c r v vr tr re c.p[1] c.p[3] c.p[2] c.p[4] c.p[7]
c.p[6] c.p[5] c.p[8] c.t[1] c.t[3] c.t[2]);
my @relevant_indexes = grep { $array[$_] =~ m{\[\d+\]} } (0 .. $#array);
my @sorted_indexes = sort { $array[$a] cmp $array[$b] } @relevant_indexes;
@array[@relevant_indexes] = @array[@sorted_indexes];
print map { "$_\n"} @array;
[/CODE]
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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