Efficient sorting of SNMP oids

[Richard Foley]

Should that be a numerical sort via the spaceship operator?

	<=> instead of cmp

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On Saturday 31 October 2009 17:03:15 B Maqueira wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I need to sort eficiently a large array (~9000) of SNMP OIDs.
> 
> I am currently trying the following code:
> 
> my @sorted_oids = map { $_->[0] }
>                                   sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] }
>                                      map { [$_, pack('w*', split(/\./,
> $_))]  } @oids;
> 
> But this fails since it outputs 1.3.6.1.4.1.2333.3.2.61001.1.10 before
> than 1.3.6.1.4.1.2333.3.2.8080.1.1.1
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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