How would I list a series of items in order from greatest to least? For example:
Item A - 462
Item B - 903
Item C - 824
The script would print those items like this:
1. Item B
2. Item C
3. Item A
Also, how could I make a list of items according to the date, starting with the newest and ending with the oldest?
Thanks!!
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sordid posted this at 05:01 — 3rd October 2000.
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You could do that by first sorting the array.
Get the last value of the array by using $i = $#array.
Next use a loop to print out each item starting with the last, decrementing $i each time you do it. Oh hell, like this, haha :
@array = ("223", "479", "145", "906", 400");
@array = sort(@array);
$i = $#array; #gets the last item number in the array
$z = 0; #first item in the array
while ($i >= $z) {
print "$array[$i]\n";
$i--;
}
finit
should do the trick for ya.
sordid posted this at 05:04 — 3rd October 2000.
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As for the date thing, try using numbers for your dates :
"yymmdd" format will organize your dates by newest to oldest.
Cheers!
Rob Pengelly posted this at 11:47 — 3rd October 2000.
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@array = ("462","903","824");print(reverse(sort @array));
'
outputs
903824462
As for the date, you could use the localtime() feature, which outputs the date in a 9-number variable. Then you could just sort() the array of dates to display least to greatest.
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sordid posted this at 02:18 — 4th October 2000.
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Cool