MNibble wrote:
> Beast wrote:
>
>> Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there any builtin function in perl to sort the above array based
>>>> on uid, username or fulname?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a built-in function to sort a list, yes. But the mechanism
>>> by which to sort the list is, in this case, up to you to provide.
>>> This works:
>>>
>>> my @sorted = sort {
>>> $a->[0] <=> $b->[0]
>>> } @employees;
>>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>> However, is this scalable if, for example list is more than 5000 ?
>> (ie. obtain data from ldap which we can not ask data provider to sort
>> the entry for us)
>>
> if speed (scale) is a problem ... ask someone how
s/how/who/
has the book effective
> perl
That's Effective Perl Programming...
- there is a the "schwarz" sort code,
Schwartzian transform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartzian_Transform)
which usage caching for speed
s/usage/uses/
> up. ( Randel Schwarz is also on that list
That's Randal Schwartz... s/that/this/
(http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/)
.. so maybe ... he can pass it
> anyway ).
> with regrads
> MNibble
>
Some attention to detail in postings will reflect more highly on yourself.
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