Hello, fellow PerlMonks!

I joined back in March, but this is my first question to SoPW. A fellow monk suggested that I read Resorting to Sorting to get a handle on some alternate sorting idioms. While doing so, I'm having a spot of trouble with Exercise 2 in the Orcish Manuever section.

My code compiles cleanly, and it runs, but it's giving me incorrect results. The results I want are:

Unsorted List:beta, apple, gamma globulin, alpha, zeta, gesorenplatz!!
+, gamma, delta, foolish mortal,
Sorted List:, beta, zeta, alpha, apple, delta, gamma, foolish mortal, 
+gamma globulin, gesorenplatz!!

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I don't want to spoil the exercise for those who haven't worked it yet, so I've spoilerized it...

<Reveal this spoiler or all in this thread>
I'm certain it's something simple, but I can't see it. Any help?

UPDATE: I forgot to wrap the code in code tags!
UPDATE: I linked "Orcish Manuever" since planetscape told me how.

TIA, roboticus

In reply to Sorting problem with Orcish Manuever by roboticus

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