From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-10-31T02:12:34+09:00
Subject: Re: two stage array sorting

Tim Ferrell wrote:
> 
> I have an array of strings like so:
> 
>   Tuesday 12:00 AM
>   Sunday 9:00 AM
>   Tuesday 3:00 PM
>   Friday 7:30 AM
>   Wednesday 5:00 PM
> 
> and I want the array sorted by day name and then time. Is it possible to
> do this without resorting to a two stage process? Currently I am
> breaking the array out into arrays by day and sorting those by time and
> then reassembling... it just feels dirty :-)
> 
> Ideas?

array.sort_by{|s| s.split(' ')}

Of couse, that will do alphabetic sorting in each half.  If you need 
time sorting, my suggestion would be to use a date parsing function in 
the sort_by block.

> 
> Thanks much...

Best,
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