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in thread how to sort this?

hi saint,

my requirement is to sort by integers. also i need the output as

@a = (1x1 1x1 1x2 1x12 2x1 4x0 4x1 4x12 10x1 12x1 12x3 22x3);

Thanks

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Re^3: how to sort this?
by gube (Parson) on Mar 25, 2006 at 10:01 UTC

    Hi sen try this it gives your exact output,

    #!/usr/local/bin/perl @a1 = qw/1x1 1x12 12x3 10x1 4x12 4x1 1x1 22x3 2x1 4x0 12x1 1x2/; @out = sort { (split 'x', $a, 2)[0] <=> (split 'x', $b, 2)[0] } sort { (split 'x', $a, 2)[1] <=> (split 'x', $b, 2)[1] }@a1; print "@out";