Sorting by numbers

[kidd]

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

9
8
7
...
3
2
1

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

Thanks

[the_slycer]

Sounds like you are doing just a sort list
What you need is sort { $a <=> $b }list See the perlfunc manpage for sort

[mp]

From: perldoc -f sort



   # sort numerically ascending
   @articles = sort {$a <=> $b} @files;

[waswas-fng]

or to get them in the order he posted in: @a = sort { $b <=> $a } @list; =)

-Waswas