On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 06:26:58 -0600
"Martin G. McCormick" <mar...@server1.shellworld.net> wrote:
> I have read perl instructional documentation that warns
> about using system("commands") and shell commands so my question
> is, what is wrong with that?
>
> The only thing I can see is that it is not portable and
> that since the commands are outside of perl, the results might
> change one day. It probably also takes extra CPU cycles but
> unless one is doing DSP, who's counting?
There Is More Than One Way To Do It (TIMTOWTDI). There is nothing wrong
provided you accept its limitations. But why not?
@files = sort { (stat($a))[9] <=> (stat($b))[9]
|| lc($a) cmp lc($b)
|| $a cmp $b
} glob( 'filenames*' );
--
Don't stop where the ink does.
Shawn
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