You're not saying how it doesn't work. Wrong result? Can you please show where it is getting wrong, then?

One thing I might try to change in your code is to replace your sort line with this: 

s/(\d+)(?= (\d+))/ $1 > $2 ? $1 : $2/eg;

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as using sort just for retrieving the largest of two variables seems a bit of an overkill. I think that the intent gets clearer. But this will probably produce the same result. So we are back to my first question: where is it wrong?

Update: I had not seen that the line I suggested just above was in your commented out code lines. I tried the code as you have it and also with the code line suggested just above, they seem to produce the same output.

Je suis Charlie.

In reply to Re: can't find mistake. using sort and slice in regex by Laurent_R
in thread can't find mistake. using sort and slice in regex by rsFalse

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