Thanks! I took your code as an inspiration, and coded it for my next Web Techniques column, and will credit you in the column. Thanks for the idea!

To play with the program, click on the column headers once for ascending sort, twice for descending. It autodetects whether there should be an alpha sort or a numeric sort. Yeah, it's not the best, but the program's only 70 lines of code or so.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker