You could do what the others are doing, but I personally don't understand either. I ran all your examples and now I'm wondering why when you treat a scalar as a list, it doesn't get sorted..but as a string, it does. Then the other people are joining on the scalar as if it were a string, I'm not sure I understand that either.

How I do it is a little different: 

for (sort @animals) { print "$_ "; }

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UPDATE: Well what do you know, without realizing it I didn't interpolete(sp) @animals either.. But I still understand this better than joining a a blank line on a string (how does it know where the spaces are to be printed?)


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