Re: Sort textfile

Sort returns the array sorted, it does not sort it in place. So just move your sort into the foreach

foreach my $line(sort @resultArray){

Now it uses the sorted array returned from the sort. Alternately you could modify your sort line to save that back into the orignal array.

@resultArray = sort { $a<=>$b } @resultArray;

Could anyone comment as to why sort doesn't do an inplace sort when called in void context?

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Eric Hodges

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Re: Re: Sort textfile by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 13, 2004 at 21:18 UTC
What do you expect this would do? `sort { $a cmp $b } qw( one two three );` That's not intractable, but it's one of a few questions to ponder for this feature.	[reply] [d/l]