oh, I figured they should have used @ARGV, but this is a quote from them in the answer:

my @numbers;
push @numbers, split while <>;
foreach (sort { $a <=>$b } @numbers) {
printf "%20g\n", $_;
}

then later in the explanation of the answer:

The while loop is reading the input one line at a time (from the user’s choice of input sources, as shown by the diamond operator), and split is, by default, splitting that on whitespace to make a list of words—or in this case, a list of numbers. The input is just a stream of numbers separated by whitespace, after all. Either way you write it, then, that while loop will put all of the numbers from the input into @numbers.

The instructions in the exercise are:

Write a program to read in a list of numbers and sort them numerically
+, printing out the resulting list in a right-justified column. Try it
+ out on this sample data:
17 1000 04 1.50 3.14159 –10 1.5 4 2001 90210 666

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unless I'm reading it wrong and they actually wanted it in a file. I was assuming it was supposed to be as command line options. That's certainly possible, as I'm still new to all this! ;}

In reply to Re^2: <> to read command line options? by slackcub
in thread <> to read command line options? by slackcub

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