sort like string or like numbers?

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 18:04, Matt <lm7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe you can sort an array like so:
>
> sort @my_array;
>
> I need to sort a string though.
>
> I have $a_string that contains:
>
> 4565 line1
> 2345 line2
> 500 line3
> etc.
>
> Obviously \n is at end of every line in the string.  I need it sorted.
>  How would I approach this?
>
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