Re^2: Sort the array

Hi,

your solution works fine. But Can you explain the line a but more ,

my @theSortedList = sort { $a <=> $b } @theList;
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Since i m new to Perl, i did not understood what its actually doing.
Thanks,
Shekar

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Re^3: Sort the array by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Nov 10, 2008 at 11:53 UTC
`<=>` is a numeric equality operator. See perlop for details. `$main::a` and `$main::b` are special variables that sort uses internally. So the code block is a call-back subroutine that sort uses to compare the values of the incoming list.	[reply] [d/l] [select]