# Did we find a match? We only add the hit to the @hits array if we need it. We can
# skip it if we are not sorting and it's not in our first < > last range.
if ($key_match &#0124; &#0124; (!($in{'keyword'}) && !($in{'ma'}))) {
if (exists $in{'sb'}) {
$sortby{(($#hits+1) / ($#db_cols+1))} = $values[$in{'sb'}];
push (@hits, @values);
}
else {
(($numhits >= $first) and ($numhits <= $last)) and push (@hits, @values);
}
$numhits++; # But we always count it!
}
}
close DB;

# Now we've stored all our hits in @hits, and we've got a sorting values stored
# in %sortby indexed by their position in @hits.
$numhits ? ($db_total_hits = $numhits) : ($db_total_hits = 0);
($db_total_hits == 0) and return ("no matching records.");

# Sort the array @hits in order if we are meant to sort.
if (exists $in{'sb'}) { # Sort hits on $in{'sb'} field.
my ($sort_order, $sort_func);
$in{'so'} ? ($sort_order = $in{'so'}) : ($sort_order = "ascend");
$sort_func = "$db_sort{$db_cols[$in{'sb'}]}_$sort_order";

foreach $hit (sort $sort_func (keys %sortby)) {
$first = ($hit * $#db_cols) + $hit; $last = ($hit * $#db_cols) + $#db_cols + $hit;
push (@sortedhits, @hits[$first .. $last]);
}
@hits = @sortedhits;
}