RE: Decoding code.

2002-10-28 Thread Nikola Janceski
(split/,/)[1..8,0] this splits $_ on the , and moves the first element to the 9 position. ie. $_ = '111,222,333,444,555,666,777,888,999,000'; will now be returned as an array (222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, 999, 111) notice: no matter how long the $_ is and how many , it has it only

Re: Decoding code.

2002-10-28 Thread John W. Krahn
Patrick Salmon wrote: I've been working on sorting by IP Address in an output file that comprises field1(hostname), field2(hosttype), IP Address. Found a very elegant solution here (http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=88719), that I think I can re-write to suite my needs but am

Re: Decoding code.

2002-10-28 Thread Patrick Salmon
You wrote: - Original Message - The algorithm used is the Guttman-Rosler Transform which is based on the Schwartzian Transform. The paper describing it can be found here: http://www.sysarch.com/perl/sort_paper.html A better way to convert IP addresses for sorting is to use pack() and