Sorting issue

[Rob Hunter]

I have the following categories (1D, 2D, 3D, 2DD, and 3DD) and each one has a 1 to 20 rank associated with them. What is the easiest way to sort the values so they arrange like this :

1D 1 (1 for rank)
1D 2
1D 3
....
2D 1
2D 2
....
2DD 1
2DD 2
....
3D 1
3D 2
....
3DD 1
3DD 2
....

[fred rosenberger]

What have you tried?

[Rob Hunter]

I had copied a line such as :

@listing = sort { $a->sortElement() <=> $b->sortElement() } @objArray

but it wasn't working exactly as planned, the solution was replacing <=> with cmp.

[fred rosenberger]

Rob Hunter wrote: the solution was replacing <=> with cmp.

I don't understand this.

regardless...

The first thing you need to do is define how EXACTLY you want things sorted. Posting an example is fine...but it is not a spec.

My guess is that you might need to break each category into components....so "1D 1" needs to be parsed into "1D" and "1". I believe that if you sort on the second part, then do another sort on the first (assuming you are using a stable sort), it will give you want you want.

There may be some tweaks needed on String vs numeric sorts, but again, without details of what you really need, it's hard to say.