Dear all,

I wrote this code, and I was challenging myself to condense the code. Basically, I was trying to figure out a way to use regular expressions within the sort in both list and scalar context, and thus not use the grep function.

The catch is, I wanted to do it with less characters than you would find in the grep line.

Can anyone help me?
Sam 
my @compounds=("C3H8O2",
           "C6H10O5",
           "C36H62O31",
           "C5H16N2",
           "C10H11N5O6P",
           "C9H11N3O7P",
           "C3H9N2O2");
print join("\n",
       sort{($a =~ /C(\d*)/)[0] 
            <=> 
        ($b =~ /C(\d*)/)[0]} 
       grep { $_ =~ /P/} 
       @compounds),"\n";

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In reply to Condensing a grep into a sort by seaver

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