note GrandFather <p>[roboticus] [id://998050|answered] the immediate question, but note that this is why you should avoid using $a and $b a general purpose variables: they are magical and should really only be used inside [doc://sort].</p> <p>Note too that using sort without a {...} bit is like <c>sort {$a cmp $b}</c>. That is, sort's default is to do a string sort.</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-461912"> True laziness is hard work </div></div> 998048 998048