in reply to Sorting based on a specific order

Here is one solution: use a hash to store the predetermined order - teacher's name as the key and the value could be an integer that determines the order.

Peter (Guo) Pei

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Re^2: Sorting based on a specific order
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 02, 2011 at 07:37 UTC 
    my @order = ...;
my %order = map { $order[$_] => $_ } 0..$#order;

my @sorted = sort { $order{$a} <=> $order{$b} } @unsorted;

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