in reply to Sort problem

As long as you know that there won't be embedded null characters, you can do this:
{ 
  local $" = "\0";
  @out = sort {"@$a" cmp "@$b" } @in;
}

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Re: Sort problem
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 26, 2003 at 22:15 UTC
    You and previous poster are almost there. But instead of setting $" to a byte that's not expected to be present, set it to the empty string: 
    {
    local $" = "";
    @out = sort {"@$a" cmp "@$b"} @in;
}

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    You can combine that with a GRT or an ST.

    Abigail

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