From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-03-29T14:33:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Help on best way to gather/sort results [Array/Hash]?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Tony De <tonydema@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings ruby fans,
>
>  I'm a greenhorn at this cool lang ruby.  Much to learn.  Perhaps you
>  chaps could help me with an issue I have.  I've read through a number of
>  the post on sorting Arrays and Hashes.  And yet I can't seem to put my
>  finger on the solution.  I want to sort on the second column.  So it
>  seemed from what information I gathered, that I need to gather my
>  results into a hash.  Am I on the right track?  Oh, let me tell you what
>  your looking at here; I am scanning each mail file in our queue for
>  commonalites (spammer) instead of the useless (my opinoin) qmHandle we
>  have for qmail.  So, I've got a working prototype.  If you could help me
>  on my sort and if you have any other comments/suggestions to throw my
>  way I'm sure I could learn a thing or two.  Being new to ruby, there's a
>  lot of new ideas here.  Thank guys.
>

Being a little lazy at the moment to go through the code, have you
looked at #sort_by{}?

Todd