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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: sort
Keywords: sort
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.222858.12859@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 1 Feb 90 22:28:58 GMT
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In-Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)

In article <6963@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax (Larry Wall) writes:
| And bearing in mind that it might be more efficient to use the sort program.

Ahh yes, it didn't even occur to me that the question might be solved
by a *standard* Unix utility!  Arrggh.  I've been rewriting for c.u.q
too long!

| 
| : Just another Perl hacker, of sorts,
| 
| Now that he's collecting examples for the book, he's also a sorter of hacks.

Cute.

@a=split(/(\d)/,"4Hacker,2another3Perl1Just");shift(@a);%a=@a;print "@a{1..4}";
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