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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!pool!buck
  3. From: buck@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Jesse Buckley)
  4. Subject: Looking for a "numerical/alpha" sort routine.
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.193120.25893@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
  6. Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
  7. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:31:20 GMT
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  10. Does anyone have a sort/compare routine that will work for numerical
  11. alpha data?  For example, if I have 1, 2, 3a, 3b, 3c, I want them sorted
  12. that way.  Right now the <=> compare ignored the letters after the
  13. numbers.  Thanks.
  14.  
  15. -- 
  16. =) Buck (buck@sunyit.edu)
  17. "I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
  18.   -- G. K. Chesterton
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