use Data::Dumper;

WITHOUT_USING_SPACESHIP: {
    my @array = qw( 7 100 12 1 4 2 88 007 );
    @array = sort { $a>$b ? 1 : -1 } @array;
    print Dumper \@array;
}

WITHOUT_USING_SORT_AT_ALL: {
    my @array = qw( 7 100 12 1 4 2 88 007 );

    for my $i (0 .. $#array)
    {
        for my $j ($i .. $#array)
        {
            @array[$i, $j] = @array[$j, $i] if $array[$i] > $array[$j]
+;
        }
    }

    print Dumper \@array;
}

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What sorting algorithm is that? I can never remember their names. It may be bubble sort.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

In reply to Re: Numeric sorting WITHOUT <=> by tobyink
in thread Numeric sorting WITHOUT <=> by Anonymous Monk

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