in reply to Re (tilly) 1: Golf: Arbitrary Alphabetical Sorting
in thread Golf: Arbitrary Alphabetical Sorting

Wow. I don't think this will work on a 99 character alphabet, but I'm too lazy to verify this :)

UPDATE 6: It just never ends: 

sub o{
$c=join'',shift;sub t{$_=pop;s/./~0+index$c,$&/ges;$_}sort{t($a)cmp t$
+b}@{+pop}
}

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79 chars... 
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Re (tilly) 3: Golf: Arbitrary Alphabetical Sorting
by tilly (Archbishop) on May 10, 2001 at 00:40 UTC
    First of all that doesn't work because shift returns a reference. You need it to dereference the first element into an array. Secondly you know I love a challenge..like 76 characters: 
    sub o{
($c,$s,$")=@_;sub t{$_=pop;s/./~0+index"@$c",$&/ges;$_}sort{t($a)cmp t
+$b}@$s
}

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    (I have to waste 3 on removing spaces, dang.)

    UPDATE
    In 5.6.x it appears you need to spend another character: 

    sub o{
($c,$s,$")=@_;sub t{$_=pop;s/./1e9+index"@$c",$&/ges;$_}sort{t($a)cmp 
+t$b}@$s
}

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    UPDATE 2
    Saving another character..back to 76. 

    sub o{
($c,$s,$")=@_;sub t{s/./1e9+index"@$c",$&/ges;$_}sort{t($_=$a)cmp t$_=
+$b}@$s
}

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    UPDATE 3
    Throwing in tadman's improvement, 75: 

    sub o{
($c,*w,$")=@_;sub t{s/./1e9+index"@$c",$&/ges;$_}sort{t($_=$a)cmp t$_=
+$b}@w
}

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    (Note that chr returning 2 chars wouldn't make Unicode come out right. Hence I am keeping the 1e9 trick.)
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      You can save a single character by using a glob, such as: 
      sub o {
($l,*w,$")=@_;sub g{$_=pop;s/./chr index"@$l",$&/ges;$_}sort{g($a)cmp 
+g+$b}@w
}

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      So *w ... @w instead of $w ... @$w.

      '1e9' or 'chr' vary only in that '1e9' would support an alphabet of length > 255, but if you're using UNICODE, then chr would likely return two characters anyway.
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      TMTOWTDI, as they say, and this one appears to be 70 characters: 
      sub o {
($c,*w,$")=@_;sub t{eval"y/@$c/\0-\377/";$_}sort{t($_=$a)cmp t$_=$b}@w
}

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        Unfortunately, that fails if @$c includes a slash. Fixing this bumps it up to 74 characters: 
        sub o {
    ($c,*w,$")=@_;sub t{eval"y/\Q@$c\E/\0-\377/";$_}sort{t($_=$a)cmp t
+$_=$b}@w
}

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