Re: [MacPerl] Sorting a subset of hash keys...

2001-11-10 Thread Detlef Lindenthal
The code seams right to me. ? If you sort by letters (e.g. by file type), mind to use cmp instead of <=> : foreach (sort { $database{$a}[0] cmp $database{$b}[0]} @sample) { And do not expect to sort great amounts of data by this; better use MySQL for that. And better sort pictures of

[MacPerl] Sorting a subset of hash keys...

2001-11-10 Thread Richard Smith
Hi All, I hope I am not wasting anyones time here, as I seem to have arrived at a solution. I just want to make sure that my code is really doing what I want it to, or simplying appearing to. I am building a database of illustrations into a hash of arrays, keyed by name. The basic structure is a