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#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11143026 use warnings; use List::AllUtils qw( sort_by ); print <<'EOF'; .,-;:!?"'`_#$%&*+/|=@\^~()<>[]{}0123456789AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmN +nOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz intended sequence !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcde +fghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ natural ASCII sequence EOF my @list = qw{ "Hello" Abel (hello) {adieu} @adieu [goodbye] Charlie ^ +Charlie ~Adieu zebra 21708 baker . - ; : ! ? " ' ` _ }; my @normalsorted = sort @list; print "@normalsorted\n\n"; my @newsorted = sort_by { tr/ .,\-;:!?"'`_#$%&*+\/|=@\\^~()<>[]{}01234 +56789AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz/ -~/r } @li +st; print "@newsorted\n\n";

Outputs:

.,-;:!?"'`_#$%&*+/|=@\^~()<>[]{}0123456789AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmN +nOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz intended sequence !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcde +fghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ natural ASCII sequence ! " "Hello" ' (hello) - . 21708 : ; ? @adieu Abel Charlie [goodbye] ^C +harlie _ ` baker zebra {adieu} ~Adieu . - ; : ! ? " "Hello" ' ` _ @adieu ^Charlie ~Adieu (hello) [goodbye] { +adieu} 21708 Abel baker Charlie zebra

In reply to Re: Changing ASCII collating sequence for sort by tybalt89
in thread Changing ASCII collating sequence for sort by ibm1620

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