  Using DCL to time procedure performance? 
 The Question is:
 
is it possible to sort the times in this txt file using DCL programming?  here
 is a sample of the output and a sample of the sorted output that it needs to
 be.  thanks in advance.
 
**Before **
@INIT
F115      115
T101      113
@START 00:00:00 01-11-13
05:07:00  F115    120
05:11:00  F115    115
05:22:00  F115    120
05:25:00  F115    115
05:11:00  T101    115
05:24:00  T101    117
05:25:00  T101    120
@END 23:59:59 01-11-13
 
** After  this is what I want it to end up as
 
@INIT
F115      115
T101      113
@START 00:00:00 01-11-13
05:07:00  F115    120
05:11:00  T101    115
05:11:00  F115    115
05:22:00  F115    120
05:24:00  T101    117
05:25:00  F115    115
05:25:00  T101    120
@END 23:59:59 01-11-13
 
 
 
 The Answer is :
$ if p1 .eqs. "" then $ inquire p1 "File to be sorted"
 
$ close /nolog infile
$ open infile 'p1'
 
$ close /nolog outfile
$ open /write outfile 'p1'
 
$ read infile line
$ write outfile line
 
$ read infile line
$ write outfile line
 
$ read infile line
$ write outfile line
 
$ read infile line
$ write outfile line
 
$ close /nolog temp
$ open /write temp x.x
$ loop1:
$       read infile line
$       if f$element( 0, " ", line ) .eqs. "@END" then $ goto done1
$       write temp line
$ goto loop1
$ done1:
$ save = line
$ close temp
$ close infile
 
$ sort x.x z.z /key = ( position:1, size:8 )
$ delete x.x.
 
$ open temp z.z
$ loop2:
$ read /end_of_file = done2 temp line
$ write outfile line
$ goto loop2
$ done2:
$ close temp
$ delete z.z.
 
$ write outfile save
$ close outfile
 Answer written or last revised on  14-NOV-2001 
