Hi all, I am looking for a way to sort times. my problem is that I do not always have a time available. I have a pre-sorted arrat that looks something like this: 
@ar = ( 1245, 1248, 0000, 1246, 1247 );

sort{ $a <=> $b } @ar;

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would sort all values, returning ( 0000, 1245, 1246, ... ). I only wish to move larger numbers to the end, returning (1245,0000,1246,1247,1248). Writing a new sort algorithm would solve this, but I was wondering, if there is a way to teach sort to do so, and if this was possibly faster. Actually by pre-sorted I mean that all larger values simply need to be sorted upwards in the array, so 1248 will be at the end while in the end while the other values are in the right order already.

In reply to Exceptional sorting by PerlingTheUK

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