ikegami-

I'm sorry, but I don't believe I understand your point. It seems that all you did to fix the problem was to remove the initial spaces in the original data.

In my opinion Sort::Fields should sort the data the same way, regardless of where the data is (field 1 or field 2). If you try to numerically sort the output of an 'ls -s' command, you can see the problem clearly: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Sort::Fields;
use Data::Dumper;

my @data = `ls -s`; chomp(@data);

my @sorted = fieldsort( ['1n'], @data);
print(Dumper(\@sorted));

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This doesn't do what is intended, and is why I made the report to the author. I'm sure I could remove the initial spaces for Data::Dumper, then put them back after it's done, but that doesn't seem right to me.

-Craig

In reply to Re^2: Bug in Sort::Fields? by cmv
in thread Split(), Initial Spaces, & a limit? by cmv

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