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Sorting Array and Parsing a string

Zamereon
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Feb 10, 2011, 4:59 PM

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Sorting Array and Parsing a string	Can't Post

I have two questions. I have a program that i need to take in a web log file and arrange in into some data. One thing I'm trying to do is sort the web addresses into the top 10 most requested sites. I'm using the following code to sort through how many hits they have had.
my %counts = ();
for (@site) {
$counts{$_}++;
}

This gives me the output of the number of hits each site has had, but I need to sort them from most requested to least, and only list the top 10.

Second, i need to take in a string like 21/Jun/2000 and parse it into a date so it can be compared within a week function. I don't want to use the Date::manip function or anything like that however.

Any help with these would be great.

BillKSmith
Veteran

Feb 10, 2011, 6:02 PM

Post #2 of 3 (271 views)

Re: [Zamereon] Sorting Array and Parsing a string [In reply to]	Can't Post

The function that you want to accomplish is:

Code

my @sorted_sites = sort {$counts{$b} <=> $counts{$a} } keys %counts; 
foreach my $site ( @sorted_sites[0..9] ) { 
    print $site, '  ', $counts{$site}, "\n"; 
}

This may be too slow if the number of sites is large. There are ways to speed it up, but this is probably ok.

Note: It is very difficult to get dates right without modules. It is even harder to prove that they are right. Use the module!
Good Luck,
Bill

Zamereon
New User

Feb 10, 2011, 6:50 PM

Post #3 of 3 (264 views)

Re: [BillKSmith] Sorting Array and Parsing a string [In reply to]	Can't Post

I figured out how to get the dates to work. I just changed them into epoch time and did it that way.

And your code works perfectly. Thank you so much! :)

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