The field 1 sort is not sorted at all. We know why, we've been beating that poor horsie all afternoon.

It is being sorted correctly. Empty strings are placed first. You're miscounting the fields.

The field 5 sort is sorted correctly.

You say that because you haven't seen the following example: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use Sort::Fields;
use Data::Dumper;

my @data = split /\n/, <<'__EOI__';
10 0 0 6 4
 1 0 0 5 3
__EOI__

print "Field 1 sort:\n", Dumper(fieldsort( ['1n'], @data));
print "Field 5 sort:\n", Dumper(fieldsort( ['5n'], @data));

__END__
Field 1 sort:
$VAR1 = ' 1 0 0 5 3';
$VAR2 = '10 0 0 6 4';
Field 5 sort:
$VAR1 = '10 0 0 6 4';
$VAR2 = ' 1 0 0 5 3';

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Field 1: "" < 10
Field 5: 4 < 5

In reply to Re^7: Bug in Sort::Fields? by ikegami
in thread Split(), Initial Spaces, & a limit? by cmv

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