testing testing... perl question

[Cristina Nunes]

On 8/13/07, Aidan Samuel <aidan.samuel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm new here.
>
> Is it ok to ask a perl question?
>
> perl -e '@a = (1..5); print sort $a <=> $b, @a;'
> 012345

I think the "0" is the result of the sort $a <=> $b operation.
The rest is the print for an ARRAY.

>
> perl -e '@a = (1..5); print sort {$a <=> $b} @a;'
> 12345
>

This is the correct way to do it.

> When using map and grep I tend to leave off the curly braces and just
> use a comma, but if I try this with sort, I get these odd results.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Aidan.
>


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