Hi guys,

I've been working on a sort function to sort a number
of version numbers, and...out of curiousity:
Is there a faster way to do it than this ?:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

sub ByVersion;

my @VersionList=("1.1","1.1.1","2.0","1.2_patch3","33.0","1.1.1.1","1.
+a.1","1.b.1","1.b.1.a","1.b.1.b","1.33.0","1.0.a","1.0.b","33.1","6.6
+.6","10.0","9.0","3.1.4","3.1.12");

chomp (@VersionList);

my @Sorted=sort ByVersion @VersionList;

print "Sorted to: @Sorted\n";

sub ByVersion
{
 my @First=split /\./,$a;
 my @Second=split /\./,$b;
 my $Nr=($#First>$#Second)?$#Second:$#First;
 foreach(0..$Nr)
 {
  next if ($First[$_] eq $Second[$_]);
  return ("$First[$_]$Second[$_]"=~/^\d$/o)?($First[$_] <=> $Second[$_
+]):($First[$_] cmp $Second[$_]);
 }
 return ($#First>$#Second)?1:-1;
}

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Now the output is really what I would like it to be....
BUT... is there a quicker or more elegant way to do it ? ;))

I had my fun with it so far ;))), just wondering if there
are better ideas out there ;))

GrtZ!,