Sort::Key::Multi(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     Sort::Key::Multi(3pm)

NAME

       Sort::Key::Multi - simple multikey sorts

SYNOPSIS

	   use Sort::Key::Multi qw(sikeysort);
	   my @data = qw(foo0 foo1 bar34 bar0 bar34 bar33 doz4)
	   my @sisorted = sikeysort { /(w+)(d+)/} @data;

DESCRIPTION

       Sort::Key::Multi creates multikey sorting subroutines and exports them to the caller package.

       The names of the sorters are of the form "xxxkeysort" or "xxxkeysort_inplace", where "xxx" determines the number and types of the keys as
       follows:

	   + "i" indicates an integer key, "u" indicates an unsigned integer key, "n" indicates a numeric key, "s" indicates a string key and "l"
	   indicates a string key that obeys locale order configuration.

	   + Type characters can be prefixed by "r" to indicate reverse order.

	   + A number following a type character indicates that the key type has to be repeated as many times (for instance "i3" is equivalent to
	   "iii" and "rs2" is equivalent to "rsrs").

	   + Underscores ("_") can be freely used between type indicators.

       For instace:

	  use Key::Sort::Multi qw(iirskeysort
				  i2rskeysort
				  i_i_rs__keysort
				  i2rs_keysort);

       exports to the caller package fourth identical sorting functions that take two integer keys that are sorted in ascending order and one
       string key that is sorted in descending order.

       The generated sorters take as first argument a subroutine that is used to extract the keys from the values which are passed inside $_, for
       example:

	 my @data = qw(1.3.foo 1.3.bar 2.3.bar 1.4.bar 1.7.foo);
	 my @s = i2rs_keysort { split /./, $_ } @data;

SEE ALSO

       For a more general multikey sorter generator see Sort::Key::Maker.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2006 by Salvador Fandin~o <sfandino@yahoo.com>

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or,
       at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

perl v5.14.2							    2010-04-16						     Sort::Key::Multi(3pm)