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by japhy (Canon)
on Nov 30, 2001 at 23:48 UTC ( [id://128722]=perltutorial: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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      @sorted = sort { $a <=> $b } @numbers;  # ascending order
      @sorted = sort { $b <=> $a } @numbers;  # descending order
    
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      @sorted = sort { $a cmp $b } @unsorted;
    
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      @sorted = sort @unsorted;
    
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      @sorted = sort { lc($a) cmp lc($b) } @unsorted;
      # or
      @sorted = sort { uc($a) cmp uc($b) } @unsorted;
    
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      sub age_or_name {
        my ($name_a, $age_a) = split /_/ => $a;
    ...
      @sorted = sort age_or_name @people;
      # @sorted is now
      #   qw( Jon_14 Tim_14 Ray_18 Greg_19 Jeff_19 Joan_20 )
    
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      @sorted = sort { ... } @strings;
    
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      @nodes = (
        { id => 17, size => 300, keys => 2, cmp => 'keys' },
    ...
        { id => 31, size => 2045, keys => 43, cmp => 'keys' },
        { id => 28, size => 6, keys => 0, cmp => 'id' },
      );
    
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      {
        my %cache;  # cache hash is only seen by this function
    ...
      
      @people = qw( Jeff_19 Jon_14 Ray_18 Tim_14 Joan_20 Greg_19 );
      @sorted = sort age_or_name @people;
    
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      {
        my %cache;
    ...
          # compare as needed
        }
      }
    
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      # sorts in-place (meaning @list gets changed)
      # set $unknown to true to indicate variable length
      radix_sort(\@list, $unknown);
    
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      sub radix_sort {
        my ($data, $k) = @_;
    ...
          @$data = map @$_, @buckets;  # expand array refs
        }
      }
    
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      sub radix_sort (\@;$);
      
    ...
      sub radix_sort (\@;$) {
        # ...
      }
    
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      @names  = qw( Jeff Jon Ray Tim Joan Greg );
      @ages   = qw( 19   14  18  14  20   19   );
      @gender = qw( m    m   m   m   f    m    );
    
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      @names  = qw( Jon Tim Ray Greg Jeff Joan );
      @ages   = qw( 14  14  18  19   19   20   );
      @gender = qw( m   m   m   m    m    f    );
    
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      sub age_or_name {
        return (
    ...
          $names[$a] cmp $names[$b]
        )
      }
    
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      @idx = sort age_or_name 0 .. $#ages;
      print "@ages\n";        # 19 14 18 14 20 19
      print "@idx\n";         #  1  3  2  5  0  4
      print "@ages[@idx]\n";  # 14 14 18 19 19 20
    
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      @sorted =
        map { get_original_data($_) }
        sort { ... }
        map { transform_data($_) }
        @original;
    
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      username:password:shell:name:dir
    
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      @sorted =
        map { $_->[0] }
    ...
        }
        map { [ $_, split /:/ ] }
        @entries;
    
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      @transformed = map { [ $_, split /:/ ] } @entries;
    
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      for (@entries) {
        push @transformed, [ $_, split /:/ ];
      }
    
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      @transformed = sort {
        $a->[3] cmp $b->[3]
    ...
        or
        $a->[1] cmp $b->[1]
      } @transformed;
    
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      @sorted = map { $_->[0] } @transformed;
    
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      @sorted =
        map { restore($_) }
        sort
        map { normalize($_) }
        @original;
    
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      my $nulls = 0;
      
    ...
          $nulls = length($1) if length($1) > $nulls;
        }
      }
    
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      $NUL = "\0" x ++$nulls;
    
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      # "\L...\E" is like lc(...)
      @normalized = map { "\L$_\E$NUL$_" } @original;
    
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      @sorted = sort @normalized;
    
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      @sorted = map { (split /$NUL/)[1] } @original;
    
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      # implement our for loop from above
      # as a function
    ...
        sort
        map { "\L$_\E$NUL$_" }
        @original;
    
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      # see Exercise 1 for this function
      $maxlen = maxlen(\@original);
    
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      @sorted =
        map { substr($_, $maxlen) }
        sort
        map { lc($_) . ("\0" x ($maxlen - length)) . $_ }
        @original;
    
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      @sorted =
        {
    ...
        or
        $a->[1] cmp $b->[1]
      }
    
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      #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    
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      package Sorting;
    
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      sub passwd_cmp {
        $a->[3] cmp $b->[3]
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        or
        $a->[1] cmp $b->[1]
      }
    
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      sub case_insensitive_cmp {
        lc($a) cmp lc($b)
      }
    
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      package main;
    
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      @strings = sort Sorting::case_insensitive_cmp
        qw( this Mine yours Those THESE nevER );
    
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      print "<@strings>\n";
    
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      __END__
      <this Mine yours Those THESE nevER>
    
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      #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    
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      package Sorting;
    
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      sub passwd_cmp ($$) {
        local ($a, $b) = @_;
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        or
        $a->[1] cmp $b->[1]
      }
    
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      sub case_insensitive_cmp ($$) {
        local ($a, $b) = @_;
        lc($a) cmp lc($b)
      }
    
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      package main;
    
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      @strings = sort Sorting::case_insensitive_cmp
        qw( this Mine yours Those THESE nevER );
    
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      print "<@strings>\n";
    
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      __END__
      <Mine nevER THESE this Those yours>
    

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