Hi; How do I call the built-in Perl sort function on an array of strings where the string is composed of one or more digits, followed by a tab which is followed by a string and I want the results to be sorted in reverse numeric order?
I looked at http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/sort.html and I still don't know the right answer to this question. I suppose if I disable warnings, then it works ok? The GNU sort (Cygwin/Linux) function does not complain about numbers followed by strings for the data when requested with reverse sort and just does it. The "$b <=> $a" option to sort seems to complain about the strings in the data, but the output is correct. Thanks, Ken Wolcott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
