Re: Strange concatenation

The strings "2006-01-01 12:00:05" and "2007-01-02 12:00:00" can be sorted "as is" without resorting to using the ST:

my $recent = ( sort @ARGV )[ 0 ];
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Re^2: Strange concatenation by deibyz (Hermit) on Nov 23, 2006 at 14:24 UTC
Yes, in this case is true. Anyway is the significative part of a biggest piece of code that sorts and compares different date and time formats in a trying to be fast way, and so the need to split and rejoin.	[reply]
Re^3: Strange concatenation by blazar (Canon) on Nov 23, 2006 at 14:55 UTC
How could splitting and rejoining be faster than a plain string sort, if they are not needed? (If they were, it would be a different story, of course.)	[reply]
Re^4: Strange concatenation by Anonymous Monk on Nov 23, 2006 at 16:22 UTC
But the Schwartzian Transform always makes sorting faster! Haven't you read anything??	[reply]