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Re: How do I do a natural sort on an array?

by tye (Sage)
on Mar 30, 2001 at 01:15 UTC ( [id://68205]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do I do a natural sort on an array?

my @sorted= grep {s/(^|\D)0+(\d)/$1$2/g,1} sort grep {s/(\d+)/sprintf"%06.6d",$1/ge,1} @data;
See RE: RE: Re: Sorting on Section Numbers some important style comments.

Features and limitations:

  • Strips extra leading zeros from digit strings
  • Doesn't handle floating point numbers at all well
  • Sorts negative integers in reverse after positive integers
  • Uses very little extra memory
  • You must specify the maximum number of digits your integers will have (6 in the above code)

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