I realize that this should be fairly simple, but i cant figure out why its not working. I am sorting numbers this way. I tried this as an example, and it works beautifully. 
my @numbers= (6, 1, -3, 7, -1290);
@sorted= reverse sort { $a <=> $b } (@numbers);
print @sorted;

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However, i have an array full of other numbers that need to be sorted. Its scoring for a survey so that i know what surveys rank higher in terms of need. (its not for a class). The numbers were in a hash that are now put into an array. Only the (0) element of the array has them in it though. When i try to sort with just the array(0) it doesnt work. 
@sorted= reverse sort { $a <=> $b } (@score[0]);
print @sorted;

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the above code only returns the numbers in the same order as in @score(0), which isnt in any order. I then tried splitting the numbers 
@score= split(/\s/, @score[0]);

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that doesnt work either, it instead puts all of the values into @score(1), which also doesnt sort when plugged into the sorter. Does anyone know why this doesnt work? thanks

mkurtis

In reply to splitting array values by mkurtis

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