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Old 07-20-2013
How about using awk and sort?
Code:
awk -F, '
        {
                sub( / .*/, X, $7 )
                split ( $7, V, "/" )
                $7 = sprintf ( "%02d/%02d/%d", V[1], V[2], V[3] )
                print
        }
' OFS=, file | sort -t"," -k 7.9 -k 7.5 -k 7

 

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HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf(3pm)

NAME
HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf - CompoundSprintf filter SYNOPSIS
--- element: - type: Multi name: date elements: - name: day - name: month - name: year filter: - type: CompoundSprintf sprintf: '%02d-%02d-%04d' # get the compound-value my $date = $form->param_value('date'); DESCRIPTION
For use with a HTML::FormFu::Element::Multi group of fields. Uses a sprintf pattern to join the input from several fields into a single value. METHODS
sprintf Arguments: $string "sprintf" pattern used to join the individually submitted parts. The pattern is passed to the perl-core "sprintf" function. field_order Inherited. See "field_order" in HTML::FormFu::Filter::_Compound for details. --- element: - type: Multi name: date elements: - name: month - name: day - name year filter: - type: CompoundSprintf field_order: - day - month - year AUTHOR
Carl Franks, "cfranks@cpan.org" LICENSE
This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-01-23 HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf(3pm)
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