Re: [MacPerl] File::Sort

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 12.28 12/19/97, Brian L. Matthews wrote:
>You can sort of already do that:
>
>sub subname { a$ cmp $b};
>$r = 'subname';
>sort $r @array;

Not under use strict.  :)

>$r = sub { $a cmp $b };
>sort {&$r} @array;

Yes, that is what I want.  Matthias pointed it out to me; I don't know why
I hadn't tried that.  I figured &$r would work on its own, and gave up when
it didn't.  :)

Thanks,

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