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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: sort
Keywords: sort
Message-ID: <6963@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 1 Feb 90 20:21:48 GMT
References: <1990Feb1.050145.21183@athena.mit.edu> <1990Feb1.163539.10576@iwarp.intel.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <1990Feb1.163539.10576@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
: 	# now @indicies has the pointers into @whole for the sorted array
: 	for (@indicies) {
: 		print $whole[$_];
: 	}
: 	# larry? is that the same as 'print @whole[@indices];'?

Assuming you haven't diddled the $, variable, and that you have enough
memory to throw the whole array on the stack, and that you spell the
name of the array consistently, yes.

And bearing in mind that it might be more efficient to use the sort program.

: Just another Perl hacker, of sorts,

Now that he's collecting examples for the book, he's also a sorter of hacks.

Larry