Hello Monks,
In a scheme of mine to suck less at perl, I am trying some coding challenges- so meta-hints are fine, too. This challenge requires me to take user input and sort it in ascending order. Each line should be greater than 0 and <= 1000000. The first number of user input, is the number of lines to follow and it should not be printed. Here is what I have so far. It tells me 'Time limit exceeded', when I submit- so I assume I'm not looping through this efficiently.. 
my @numbers =  split(/\s+/, <>);

while(<>) {
last if ($_ == 0);
last if ($_ >= 1000001);
last if ($_ eq '');
push (@numbers, $_);
}

shift @numbers;
my @sorted = sort {$a <=> $b} @numbers;
foreach(@sorted){
print $_;
}

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I also tried making a subroutine for doing the sorting, and still got the same message. Any insight is greatly appreciated ;)

In reply to Sorting challenge by PerlSufi

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