There are both integers and strings in the compared values.

(Caveat: I've not been following the previous discussion.)

Strictly speaking this does not make sense. Even more strictly you can use Scalar::Util's dualvar() to create a scalar that will have two completely unrelated values in "numeric context" and in "string context" (note that these are not even precisely defined in Perl 5) respectively, but take this as an aside: generally perl will do what you mean in a very convenient way, with automatic conversions between numbers and strings. So you probably have strings that may occasionally look like numbers and you may want to sort numerically in the latter case. You may also want to do some checks to verify if that is the case.

In reply to Re^3: incorrect results by blazar
in thread incorrect results by Anonymous Monk

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