Hello, fellow monks.

I have the following bloated code in a cgi script I'm writing:

@filesImage = sort { $a->{name} cmp $b->{name} } @filesImage;
@filesAudio = sort { $a->{name} cmp $b->{name} } @filesAudio;
@filesText = sort { $a->{name} cmp $b->{name} } @filesText;
@filesUnknown = sort { $a->{name} cmp $b->{name} } @filesUnknown;
@filesDirectory = sort { $a->{name} cmp $b->{name} } @filesDirectory;

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I'm planning to rewrite this code with some references, something along the lines of:

foreach (\@list1, \@list2) {
  @$_ = sort {$a cmp $b} @$_;
}

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... but when I've tried to use 'map' for this, just as an excercise, I couldn't find the right syntax to stop map from merging the lists. Out of curiosity, could this be rewritten as a one-liner with map, and if so, how?

In reply to simplify sorting of multiple lists by december

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