Zoogie has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hi, I'm trying to write a sort function that sorts section numbers of a large document into the proper order. I keep having the feeling that's there's really easy way to do this in Perl that I'm missing :)
The section numbers look like "1, 2, 2.2, 2.13, 2.1.7, 3.4a, ...", etc. Neither a regular numeric sort nor a textual sort work, because "2.13" must come after "2.2", "10" must come after "2", and so forth.
I'm having a serious mental block on this one. Any ideas?
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