From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-04T07:23:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash counting

Hi --

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Stuart Clarke wrote:

> Thanks for your response. It makes a lot more sense and you are on the
> right lines I think. There is other code around this but it does not
> bare much relevance:
>
> def scanEVTWithSource(file, source)
> @alerts = []
> @evtLogArray = []
>    begin
>    #read the contents of the event logs files
>    evtLog = EventLog.open_backup(file, source)
>
>    #put data into an array
>    @evtLogArray = evtLog.read.sort { |a, b| (a.event_id <=>
> b.event_id).nonzero? || (a.time_written <=> b.time_written)}

I haven't really been following this thread but this caught my eye and
I thought I'd mention this other technique:

   array.sort_by {|e| [e.event_id, e.time_written] }


David

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