G'day pritesh,

Perl doesn't care how you present the numbers (decimal/octal/etc.). To sort numbers use the '<=>' operator (sometimes called the spaceship operator). The documentation for sort has a huge number of examples.

All you really needed here was: 

my @unsorted = ( ... );
my @sorted = sort { $a <=> $b } @unsorted;

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Here's a quick command line test to show that. 

$ perl -E 'say "@{[ sort { $a <=> $b } 30,5,7,9,8, -01111,-10,1,3,9,-3
+0,5,-100,0,-1,0xFF,-3,30,3,2,-300,-0xFF,15 ]}"'
-585 -300 -255 -100 -30 -10 -3 -1 0 1 2 3 3 5 5 7 8 9 9 15 30 30 255

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— Ken

In reply to Re: My best attempt at sorting. Kindly suggest improvements/modifications. by kcott
in thread My best attempt at sorting. Kindly suggest improvements/modifications. by pritesh

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