Re^4: sorting an array

thnx moritz....
actually i didnt check my output properly before posting the code
thnx for pointing that out.....
but why does not sort sorts properly?
i mean that when i first tested it on

@dudes=(fred,barney,drona,mihir,ankit);
@dudes=sort @dudes;
print "@dudes\n";
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it worked (that was a ages ago)

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i found it hard it's hard to find well whatever
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Re^5: sorting an array by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 10, 2009 at 11:26 UTC
Because it sorts by string comparison. If you have a string `$a`, and another string which is `$b = $a . $any_other_string`, than the shorter string `$a` will always sort lexicographic before the longer string. If you look into a phone book, you expect `Strauss` to come before `Strausse`, so that's what you usually want. The only case where this doesn't do what you mean is to when you compare numbers of different length. That's what Perl offers the `<=>` operator for.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: sorting an array by hnd (Scribe) on Jul 10, 2009 at 11:41 UTC
thnx again...... i will never forget this again.... ===================================================== i'am worst at what do best and for this gift i fell blessed... i found it hard it's hard to find well whatever NEVERMIND	[reply]