PS With a truly lazy sort you'd be able to do...
($first) = sort { $a wibble $b } @big_list; # in O(n) time.-- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One Some like elmers glue but it needs reapplying. I use super glue. -- tlk
