in reply to Sorting packed arays

Could you put it into a Tie::Array::Pack or Tie::Array::Packed array and just use sort?

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Re^2: Sorting packed arays
by salva (Canon) on Dec 06, 2008 at 11:01 UTC
    Could you put it into a Tie::Array::Pack or Tie::Array::Packed array and just use sort?

    That does not work as you expect, sort unpacks the array before sorting it.

    Though, Tie::Array::Packed has a sort method that can be used for that. For instance: 

    tie my @p, 'Tie::Array::Packed::Integer';
push @p, $_ for (.....);

tied(@p)->sort;

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    (it just calls Sort::Packed under the hood)
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