Depends on what the user is really after. To me it is a starting
point for the developer to continue from there. With minor changes, it
should be able to handle all that the developer wants, but it was stated
that this was a Key into a hash.
Wags ;)
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From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: RE: another sort question (flame away)
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> This should not matter what the size is but would
> expect a number at
> the beginning:
>
> foreach my $MyKey (sort {$a->[1] <=> $b->[1]}
> map{[ $_, /^(\d+)/ ]}
> keys %final_list) {
> printf "%-s\n", $MyKey->[0];
> }
Given the behavior of <=> with strings beginning with
a number, isn't this unecessary?
What if the string contains a negative or floating-point
number? Leading blanks?
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