SPUG: Sorting the contents of a scalar?

Matt Terich matt.terich at gmail.com
Mon Feb 26 15:29:13 PST 2007


sort works on lists. you'll need to split that data first.

sort( split(/\s/,$hash{$value}))

or something like that

-Matt
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On 2/26/07, Atom Powers <atom.powers at gmail.com> 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?
>
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