Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 11:03:10 -0700 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tricky perl question - ascending order Message-ID: <864ohyfqch.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <1274631361.6474.28.camel@localhost> (Jozsi Vadkan's message of "Sun, 23 May 2010 18:16:01 %2B0200") References: <1274631361.6474.28.camel@localhost>
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>>>>> "Jozsi" == Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com> writes:
Jozsi> So from the input, i want to make an ascendant order, how many things
Jozsi> are under a "SOMETHING-XX"
So you just want paragraphs ordered by line count?
Something like this, untested:
perl -00 'print map $_->[0], sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map [$_, tr/\n//], <>' <input >output
Keywords: Schwartzian Transform, paragraph mode.
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