Sorting numbers in an array

[Andy Jack]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:51:17PM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
>   I have an array of interger values in perl (i386 Linux 2.6 - FC2). Is 
> there an easy way that anyone knows to pull those values out from 
> smallest value to largest (or vice versa)?

Stolen from the Perl Cookbook (Recipe 4.14):

@sorted = sort { $a <=> $b } @unsorted;

Swap $a and $b if you want largest to smallest.

Cheers,
Andy
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