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Ok, say I have a bunch of files that I want to open, get a number. Then sort the files based on that number. I thought of useing a hash. But I don't have much experience in useing hashes. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Just for clarity.

You want to sort the order in which you open the files?

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-Twenty7
http://www.englishhouse.com/twenty7/

That game called Infantry
http://infantry.nmebase.com/

No, say I have a files named 1.3df, 2.3df, ect ect.. I want to open them. Then get a number out of the file. The files are setup like this:

Name|Name|Name|Name|$Number|Name|

And I want to get the $Number and sort it by that.

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Using a has is probably the simplest way, that I know of anyway. I am sure there are better ways though. Open the file, put the file name as the key, and the number as the...whatever it is called, then sort by the key...

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Correction, put the value into the key and the file name into the value, as he apparently (still can't fully understand what he is asking) wants to go through the list of files, open each one, read in a value, then sort the filenames in accordance with what value was found inside.

so if 2df had #9 and 3df had #2 then he would want the files in order as:

3df
2df

I think.

Given that, values in the hash, sort keys, print out.

Zanardi, please learn how to FULLY explain, with lots of details. It will only help you.

--mark

Yeah Mark, your right. To exactly tell you what I'm doing. This is part of the news script I made at my site:
http://www.outpostd34.com/3do

In the '3do Archives' Section near the bottom I have a table called "Latest 10 3do's", and you see it has listed. Rating and the number of downloads it has. Well I want to change it to the 10 most downloaded files. Everytime someone clicks on to download a file. It opens up the $filename.3df (The $filename variable is the number of which the news file was added. thats how I get the number) and then adds 1 to the current number of downloads. So I want to open all the files. And sort them by the number of downloads the have. This is what one of the files looks like:

15|zanardi|[email protected]|Jedi Knight|A shotgun. Works with dflt.mat. Has custom textures|9-24-00|zanardi|[email protected]|Shot Gun|dflt.cmp|shotgun.zip|nshot.jpg|2|2|7|weapon|

The first number 2 that you see (Feild number 12) is the number of downloads the file has. the other numbers are just part of the rating system. Hope that helps ya a little bit.



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K but you still haven't answered what the output should be.

Do you want to list the files in order of the numbers (high to low) found at field 12?

--mark

Yes, In order, high - low. Feild 12

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It would be easier to use only one data file and have each line as an entry.

then sort all the lines in that file by the number.



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-Twenty7
http://www.englishhouse.com/twenty7/

That game called Infantry
http://infantry.nmebase.com/

No need to help me any more I figured it out on my own. See the finished product:
http://www.outpostd34.com/3do/archive.shtml#top10

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