Probably you have "use warnings" turned on. You can disable the warning for
numeric comparison with "no warnings 'numeric';"
perl -E 'use warnings; no warnings "numeric"; my @a =
("12\thi","37\tb","123\tc","187\ta"); my @b = sort { $a <=> $b } @a; say
join("\n",@b)'
12 hi
37 b
123 c
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 13:29:40 -0800
Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> 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?
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
wrote:
> Hi;
>
>
