#!perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my @Objs = map { +{num => int rand(500)} } 1..1000; sub is_sorted { my $last; for (@_) { if (defined $last and $last->{num} > $_->{num}) { #print Dumper $last; #print Dumper $_; return 0 }; $last = $_; }; return 1 }; print "Unsorted\t",is_sorted(@Objs),"\n"; print "Sorted\t\t",is_sorted(sort { $a->{num} <=> $b->{num} } @Objs),"\n"; @Objs = sort { $a->{num} <=> $b->{num} } @Objs; print "Sorted in-place\t",is_sorted(@Objs),"\n";