SPUG: Sorting the contents of a scalar?

[John W. Krahn]

Atom Powers wrote:
> This seems like it should be so easy; but I can't find anything that
> would tell me why this doesn't work or how to do it correctly.
> 
> sort( qw/$hash{$value}/ )
> 
> Where $hash{$value} is something like "mary jane joe bob".
> 
> Any ideas?

my @sorted = sort split ' ', $hash{ $value };



John
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