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in thread Sorting IP addresses, lots of them, quickly

Do you have any documentation for that? The sort manpage doesn't mention any such thing.

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Re^4: Sorting IP addresses, lots of them, quickly
by salva (Canon) on May 16, 2007 at 19:24 UTC
    AFAIK, it is not officially documented in any place, but you can see it's true dumping the OP tree:
    salva@vespa:/tmp$ perl -MO=Concise -e '@i = sort @j' c <@> leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC ->(end) 1 <0> enter ->2 2 <;> nextstate(main 1 -e:1) v ->3 b <2> aassign[t5] vKS ->c - <1> ex-list lK ->8 3 <0> pushmark s ->4 7 <@> sort lK ->8 4 <0> pushmark s ->5 6 <1> rv2av[t4] lK/1 ->7 5 <#> gv[*j] s ->6 - <1> ex-list lK ->b 8 <0> pushmark s ->9 a <1> rv2av[t2] lKRM*/1 ->b 9 <#> gv[*i] s ->a -e syntax OK salva@vespa:/tmp$ perl -MO=Concise -e '@i = sort @i' 8 <@> leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC ->(end) 1 <0> enter ->2 2 <;> nextstate(main 1 -e:1) v ->3 - <1> ex-aassign vKS/64 ->8 - <1> ex-list lK ->- 3 <0> pushmark s ->4 7 <@> sort lK/INPLACE ->8 4 <0> pushmark s ->5 6 <1> rv2av[t4] lKRM*/1 ->7 5 <#> gv[*i] s ->6 - <1> ex-list lK ->- - <0> ex-pushmark s ->- - <1> ex-rv2av lKRM*/1 ->- - <0> ex-gv s ->- -e syntax OK
Re^4: Sorting IP addresses, lots of them, quickly
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on May 16, 2007 at 20:12 UTC