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From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: tricky perl question - ascending order
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>>>>> "Jozsi" == Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com> writes:

Jozsi> So from the input, i want to make an ascendant order, how many things
Jozsi> are under a "SOMETHING-XX"

So you just want paragraphs ordered by line count?

Something like this, untested:

perl -00 'print map $_->[0], sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map [$_, tr/\n//], <>' <input >output

Keywords: Schwartzian Transform, paragraph mode.

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