Re: array bug?

[broquaint]

This is nothing to do with arrays but how sort processes it's arguments, which is lexically (as opposed to numerically as you were expecting). Here's the relevant paragraph from the sort docs

sort SUBNAME LIST
sort BLOCK LIST
sort LIST

    Sorts the LIST and returns the sorted list value.
    If SUBNAME or BLOCK is omitted, "sort"s in stan-
    dard string comparison order.  If SUBNAME is spec-
    ified, it gives the name of a subroutine that
    returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater
    than "0", depending on how the elements of the
    list are to be ordered.  (The "<=>" and "cmp"
    operators are extremely useful in such routines.)
    SUBNAME may be a scalar variable name (unsub-
    scripted), in which case the value provides the
    name of (or a reference to) the actual subroutine
    to use.  In place of a SUBNAME, you can provide a
    BLOCK as an anonymous, in-line sort subroutine.

HTH

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