sorting multi-dimensioned arrays

hi,

I am afraid I am having troubles sorting multi-dimensioned arrays. Extracted and split from a text file, each array element consists of string information except the (primary?) element which has a formatted date eg. 20010615 (year,month,day). I need to order each array in order of date, yet I am having extreme difficulties.

eg
my @arr=(20010615,"string","string");
$values[0]=\@arr;
my @arr=(19991115,"string","string");
$values[1]=\@arr;
my @arr=(20000606,"string","string");
$values[2]=\@arr;


any help much appreciated.

thanks

bren

Not sure why you would be getting a multiude of arrays from one text file?? but why not push all the arrays together then do a sort of the new array:



Mickalo

each line of the text file is seperated eg.

1|06 dec 1998|blahblah|blahblah|

so, i split them by |, then i format the date so that it can be ordered: 19981206 and append this to the end of the array so i have

[0] 1 [1] 06 dec 1998 [2] blahblah [3] blahblah [4] 19981206

so i have a whole bunch date similar to this above which i need to be ordered by [4]

i tried

my @sortedvalues = (sort { $allValues[$a]->[4] <=> $allValues[$b]->[4] } @allValues);

and altough i didnt get an error i didnt get a result either...is this totally off track?

wouldnt you just know it, after having a break from that, i come back and this seems to work:

@sorted = (sort {$a->[11] <=> $b->[11]} @allValues);