[MacPerl] ordering of files in Drag-n-drop from Finder

[schabel@leland.stanford.edu (Matthias Schabel)]

Does anyone know how the Finder orders selected files; for example, imagine
I have a bunch of files with names

f.1
f.2
...
f.10

and I select them in a particular order, say,

f.2
f.3
f.6
f.4
...
f.1

and drag-n-drop them onto a perl script.  When I do this, I find that the
filenames are sorted before being processed by the script; is it the perl
interpreter doing this or does the Finder sort the list first?  In either
case, is there any way to preserve the order in which the files are
selected?

Thanks,

M

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