in reply to sorting text arrays and ignoring case

You can convert the array elements to lowercase while comparing them. With 
@items=sort { lc($a) cmp lc($b) } (@items);

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your code prints: 
A
a
B
b
C
c

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Update: sort lists this with uc as example.

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Re^2: sorting text arrays and ignoring case
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 10, 2006 at 02:27 UTC
    That's not guaranteed to return the mentioned result. How about: 
    @items = sort { lc($a) cmp lc($b) || $a cmp $b } @items;

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