On Oct 3, 2005, at 18:16, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
On Oct 3, JupiterHost.Net said:
I have a list of strings that start with an uppercase B, Q, or Z
I need to sort them so they are in order of Q, B , then Z
Any ideas or input on how to efficiently do that with sort() or
even map() is
On Oct 3, Xavier Noria said:
On Oct 3, 2005, at 18:16, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
my @sorted =
map { tr/123/QBZ/; $_ }
sort
map { tr/QBZ/123/; $_ }
@data;
There's a potential gotcha there: since all Qs and Bs are being swapped
lexicographic order after the first character
