in reply to Re: Choosing the sort routine on the fly
in thread Choosing the sort routine on the fly

I don't think this works. Here's the output I got from your code:
barkhausen dnubietna fairing flake fleische forward gascoigne kholsky manganese schlozhauer stencil
As you can see, the word "forward" was simply added to the list to be sorted. If I supply an $offset of 1, the word "backward" is added to the list of sorted words instead.

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It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.