>perl -wMstrict -le "my @TaR = (8, 2, 5, 20, 4, 10, 5, 6, 1, 8); print qq{original: @TaR}; ;; my @sorted_lex = sort @TaR; print qq{lexical: @sorted_lex}; ;; my @sorted_num = sort { $a <=> $b } @TaR; print qq{numeric: @sorted_num}; " original: 8 2 5 20 4 10 5 6 1 8 lexical: 1 10 2 20 4 5 5 6 8 8 numeric: 1 2 4 5 5 6 8 8 10 20