sort

sort

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• CAVEATS

NAME

sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour

SYNOPSIS

   use sort 'stable';		# guarantee stability
   use sort '_quicksort';	# use a quicksort algorithm
   use sort '_mergesort';	# use a mergesort algorithm
   use sort 'defaults';	# revert to default behavior
   no  sort 'stable';		# stability not important

   use sort '_qsort';		# alias for quicksort

   my $current;
   BEGIN {
$current = sort::current();	# identify prevailing algorithm
   }

DESCRIPTION

With the sort pragma you can control the behaviour of the builtin 登录查看完整内容