Re^2: Reverse sort array

Or, if you want to do it without ?: and add a slight touch of obfuscation:

for (sort { "-"x!!$reverse.1*($a cmp $b) } @array) { ... }
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Re^3: Reverse sort array by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 20, 2009 at 14:40 UTC
If I wanted to avoid the conditional operator, it would be because I had many options. In that case, I would use a lookup table. `my $sorter = $lkup{$method}{$direction}; for (sort $sorter @array) { ... }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]