Re^2: Sorting Outline Numbers

Using sprintf to recreate the numbers would be rather more efficient:

  my @sorted =
    map sprintf('%vd', $_),
    sort
    map join('', map chr, split /\./),
    @data;
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Hugo

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Re^3: Sorting Outline Numbers by japhy (Canon) on Aug 11, 2005 at 12:25 UTC
Wow, I forgot entirely about that. I eschew the whole version-format idiom for numbers. Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]