Sort using a function
examples/subroutines/sort_with_function.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @data = qw(foo Foo Bar Moo FooBar Name Moose Apple Ape More Peach); my @sorted = sort by_length @data; print "@data\n"; print "@sorted\n"; # foo Foo Bar Moo FooBar Name Moose Apple Ape More Peach # Ape Bar Foo foo Moo More Name Apple Moose Peach FooBar sub by_length { length($a) <=> length($b) or lc($a) cmp lc($b) or $a cmp $b }