Or, to simplify the sort, the code could be...
print "Sorted table...\n\n";
{
    no warnings 'numeric';
    print sort { $a <=> $b } @table;
}

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Perl will sort numerically if the leading characters are 0-9 and issue a warning if the remaining characters are not numeric, as in this example. Warnings in this block are temporarlily turned off.
Chris

Update: playing around with the above code, I discovered that if I put another print sort { $a <=> $b } @table; following the block, warnings weren't given, even though I believed they should be - after all, that was the reason for putting the no warnings... code in its own scope (block).
If I commented out the call to print in the enclosed block, then warnings were given for the call to print following the block.

Update2: Warnings indeed do come back on (if a second list, @list2, also of mixed alphanumeric values) is sorted following the block.

In reply to Re: sorting an array with mixed elements... by Cristoforo
in thread sorting an array with mixed elements... by cgmd

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