sorting UNixdate

[DieSucker 0]

ok so say that I got a txt file with a bunch of lines like the one below

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Record[0]=CTF-BT-Athletic1000    1955    trs|McN                      1150150175CTF-BT-Lego    1908    Hazen_Blazen                 1150285451CTF-BT-w00tw00t_fix    1964    jumper                       1150200327CTF-BT-andACTION    1989    trs|DieSucker                1150749074[/code]
and then I am spliting each line first at the "=" so then i have just


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CTF-BT-Athletic1000    1955    trs|McN                      1150150175CTF-BT-Lego    1908    Hazen_Blazen                 1150285451CTF-BT-w00tw00t_fix    1964    jumper                       1150200327CTF-BT-andACTION    1989    trs|DieSucker                1150749074[/code]
then spliting it at "\t" so basically i end up with
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CTF-BT-Athletic1000
1955
trs|MCN
1150150175
CTF-BT-Lego
1908
Hazen_Blazen
1150285451


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so is there anyway to organize all his by unixdate code?

[hvle 0]

what do you mean by organize all this by unixdate code?

[DieSucker 0]

[!--quoteo(post=388464:date=Jun 27 2006, 06:58 AM:name=hvle)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(hvle @ Jun 27 2006, 06:58 AM) [snapback]388464[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
what do you mean by organize all this by unixdate code?
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well organize by date, each unixdate code has a date associated with it ie 6/26/2006(date(mdY))
so is there anyway to get the most recent dates on top of the list and later ones towards the bottom

[hvle 0]

ok,

first, you need to read them all into an array. You know that a 4 lines will be 1 row, so it'll be easy problem.

then sort the array with ksort, specify the key you wanted to sort. If you specify the key with timestamp, it'll sort by timestamp, and so on.