Hi Ken I just wrote this
https://gist.github.com/andrewsolomon/65b795be10da569f878d and then realised it could be simpler because you'll have a tab between the number and string. Does this give you enough to work off? Andrew On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ > > > -- Andrew Solomon Mentor@Geekuni http://geekuni.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/asolomon
