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From: wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Multi line, flat file, record reader ...
Message-ID: <460@stephsf.stephsf.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 21:04:57 GMT
References: <459@stephsf.stephsf.com>
Organization: Stephen Software Systems, Inc., Tacoma WA
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 Oops, I forgot to change the comments after merging some of the 
 functions together.  The comments under "Routines:" should look
 more like this;

 #  Routines;
 #      Parse_Index,
 #          Is used to find the set of lines that from
 #          the indx to the file.  When the file index
 #          has been found the funcition returns 1 (TRUE).
 #
 #      Parse_Rec,
 #      Rtn_Last_Rec,
 #          Are used to collect  multiple lines of the data file
 #          and retrun the record in an associative array.

  Just in case applications are not obvious, this library helps in
parsing files where all of the record elements may not be on one
line.  In particular some word processors accept files of the format
that these routines can process.

  I'd like to write a sort program that would sort files in this
type format based upon a records field name.  In the example for
instance to sort by "CityStateZip".  What would be a the fastest 
sorting method to use ? 


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