I think i see the basic idea, but i get this for output: 
ckPartrao
tunhlJe  , eehsr

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Update: The above was on This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux ... I get the correct output on This is perl, v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (activestate build 813).

Update2: I changed the sort to be: sort{$x=chop;print $x;(1+$x)*2-3} and i get: 
# v5.6.1: 110110010111100100001010000101100100110010000001010010110001
+11001001000100110100011
# v5.8:
1101100101111001000010100001011001001100100000010100101100011100100100
+0100110100011001110111101

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Note that the lengths are different, but they're identical up to that point. Anyone have an explaination?

In reply to Re: Abusing sort() by davidrw
in thread Abusing sort() by phroggy

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