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in thread beginner - ordering tuples

I've just noticed, why has it put some of the output in single quotes: (look at the first and last one). I did it with different data and the last 2 tuples had quotes around the second value. 
$VAR1 = [
          [
            1,
            '5'
          ],
          [
            7,
            15
          ],
          [
            7,
            12
          ],
          [
            7,
            10
          ],
          [
            12,
            '20'
          ]
        ];

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Re^5: beginner - ordering tuples
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 13, 2010 at 14:24 UTC
    why has it put some of the output in single quotes:

    The input array is initialised with strings. Left unmodified, all the values would be output in quotes.

    During the sort process, any values that are compared as numbers using <=>, will first be converted, internally, to their (binary) numeric representation.

    But as the first & last pairs in your example have unique first elements (1 & 12), there is never any need to compare their second elements, hence they are never converted to numeric representation, and so are output as strings.

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