Need helping writing script to seperate comments and alphabatize them

[TechBoyJK]

Hi,

I need to write a script that will take 200+ pages of text notes (random statements in no proper grammar) use a tag to seperate them, and then alphabatize them. What I would like to put
between each statement (copy and past routine). Then I need a script to go through and alphabatize each statement by looking at the first character of the statement after
and order it accordingly.

Can this be done? Anything?

Thanks,

Jason

 

[mjquilly]

sort <text notes file> | sed 's/$/<put your tag here>/'

 

[notfred]

sort(split /<tag>/, $input);

that's perl. Getting input is another line or two.

 

[TechBoyJK]

mjquilly,

Is that a DOS script? Is this something I can write in a text file and run?

 

[mjquilly]

it's unix command line. i can't help you w/ dos.

 

[TechBoyJK]

ok, so i save the text file with the tag to seperate the comments

save as notes.txt

send file via samba to my linux machine

open up terminal

locate file, run command

??

 

[TechBoyJK]