[H-GEN] perl question about sort()

[Bradley Rosser]

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I think once I tried to do a couple of sorts in a pipeline; something like:

  @results = sort { ... } map { ... } sort { ... } @data

and either got a hard error (dumped core or something?) or just bad
results.

I know the man page for 'sort' says that sort functions can't be
recursive, but I don't think I ever found anything saying that you
couldn't have multiple sorts in serial sequence like this.  Did I miss
something in the documentation?

This was with Perl 5 at least 3 years ago; I'm afraid I've forgotten
the minor version number.

Just curious, in case there's a Perl expert who can tell me "yes, it
was in the documentation", etc.


Brad


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