in reply to Re: Numeric Sorting on Characters
in thread Numeric Sorting on Characters

If the cpu time is not available, I set the value to "-". It's just a way of having a placeholder than returns true if tested with an if statement.

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Re^3: Numeric Sorting on Characters
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Aug 16, 2013 at 21:02 UTC

    Still, it leads to the Zen question "How do you do a numeric sort of non-numeric data?".

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