Tag Archives: Schwartzian Transform

Final Virtusertable Perl Sort

As the final stage of the sorting posts, I’ve converted the original virtusertable sort to the ‘Schwartzian Transform’ with multiple sorts. Notice i create the ‘sub arrays’ with 3 items: $_[0] = “user@domain <whitespace> target” $_[1] = “domain” $_[2] = … Continue reading

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Perl Sorting with a bit more efficiency

I’ve modified the script from the last post to illustrate how many times the get_value function is called. #! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my %letter_vals; my $counter = 1; my $function_calls = 0; # function to calculate the ‘value’ of … Continue reading

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