Dear all,

figured it out for myself, it was my last sentence that made me think about it more: "but it just doesn't seem to pass through the '||'..."

Re-reading the definition of the comparison operators, they return '0' for equivalence and the two strings being compared, though sorted, were never going to be equal, hence sort never fell through to the next level.

here's my solution:

foreach my $ref ( sort { substr($a,0,1) cmp substr($b,0,1)
                     || 
                     substr($a,1) <=> substr($b,1) 
                 } keys %{$self->{'residues'}{$i}}){
        print "$ref\t";
    }

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cheers
Sam

In reply to Re: sorting using substrs of same string by seaver
in thread sorting using substrs of same string by seaver

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