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I believe he is trying to sort all the data, and just extracting the list of dates to make it easier to check...
What separator does your data use? Tabs, or multiple spaces between elements?
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
join
join(1T) Tcl Built-In Commands join(1T)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
NAME
join - Create a string by joining together list elements
SYNOPSIS
join list ?joinString?
_________________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION
The list argument must be a valid Tcl list. This command returns the string formed by joining all of the elements of list together with
joinString separating each adjacent pair of elements. The joinString argument defaults to a space character.
EXAMPLES
Making a comma-separated list:
set data {1 2 3 4 5}
join $data ", "
=> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Using join to flatten a list by a single level:
set data {1 {2 3} 4 {5 {6 7} 8}}
join $data
=> 1 2 3 4 5 {6 7} 8
SEE ALSO
list(1T), lappend(1T), split(1T)
KEYWORDS
element, join, list, separator
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWTcl |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org.
Tcl join(1T)