>-----Original Message----- >From: Matt [mailto:lm7...@gmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:04 >To: beginners@perl.org >Subject: Sorting a String > >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? > Since a \n is at end, then could use split like: for my $dtl ( sort {$a <=> $b} split(/\n/, $a_string) ) { # assuming numeric sort or if alpha, change <=> cmp # can do what you want with it at this point. }
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