Sorting by numbers

kidd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a bunch of data which I display sorting it out by numbers:

9
8
7
...
3
2
1
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I thought it worked fine...until I got to number 10...which displays just before 1....

I thought of adding 0 before the one digit numbers...but maybe there is a better way to achieve this...

10
9
8
...
3
2
1
[download]

Thanks

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Re: Sorting by numbers by the_slycer (Chaplain) on Aug 14, 2002 at 18:52 UTC
Sounds like you are doing just a `sort` list What you need is `sort { $a <=> $b }`list See the perlfunc manpage for `sort`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Sorting by numbers by mp (Deacon) on Aug 14, 2002 at 18:52 UTC
From: `perldoc -f sort` `# sort numerically ascending @articles = sort {$a <=> $b} @files;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Sorting by numbers by waswas-fng (Curate) on Aug 14, 2002 at 19:26 UTC
or to get them in the order he posted in: `@a = sort { $b <=> $a } @list;` =) -Waswas	[reply] [d/l]