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I am not sure what you meant by "being returned" Does that fit the bill? 
$,=' ';
print sort @ARGV;

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@ARGV and $, are documented in perlvar.
And, please, use meaningful subjects. Here something like "how to sort command line parameters?" would be nice.

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Re: Re: how do i do this?
by inkedmn (Novice) on Sep 29, 2001 at 02:51 UTC
    for example, i type this at the command line: perl script1.pl apple radio bubble ham zebra and i want the output to be: apple bubble ham radio zebra i apologize for not explaining my question more clearly... thanks for your replies.
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      shove the code below in the file script1.pl and it should do what you want. 
      #/usr/bin/perl

use strict;   # a good habit to take
use warnings; # except in production
$,=' ';
print sort @ARGV;

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