From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2001-12-29T04:05:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29569] Re: How to sort  " sort -k3,3   -k9,9  file"

At Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:15:21 +0900,
desibtis@hotmail.com (Sang DeSibtis) wrote:
> Thanks, I try and it doesn't work. I add a bang at the end of
> array.collect! but nothing got sorted. I am running Ver.1.6.5
> , does that matter? BTW, I can't locat Ver. 1.7 to try another
> command you provided.

Do you want to sort array itself?  Then, put !'s at the ends of
both of collect's.  My example would produce a sorted new
array.

array.collect! {|s| [s[2], s[8], s]}.sort.collect! {|s| s.last}


And the source of ruby 1.7 is avaiable via CVS.
See http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/cvsrepo.html


Nobu Nakada