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in thread How to sort a list of strings by an arbitrary field separator

More nifty sorting tricks for Perl:
A Fresh Look at Efficient Perl Sorting (Uri Guttman & Larry Rosler)

In particular you might make good use of the "Orcish (OR-cache) Maneuver".

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