Ok, I think I understand a bit more now, but ive got more questions if you dont mind

OK, where do $a and $b come from, are they implicit within 'foo' or are they from 'sort' itself.

I ask because I have a slight OO problem, $a and $b in my case are actually unique reference numbers to atoms in: $self->{'atoms'}.

The function I do the sort in is in the same object and has '$self' defined, but if the 'foo' function resides in the same object, how do I pass $self, or else access the object's hash in order to access the atom objects themselves...

In other words, in foo, I really need to do this: 

sub foo {
   return $self->{'atoms'}{$a}->atomName cmp $self->{'atoms'}{$b}->ato
+mName;
}
my @sorted = sort foo @unsorted;

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Any pointers?
Cheers
Sam

In reply to Re: Re: sorting according to greek alphabet in roman letters by seaver
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