From @jidanni

$ perldoc -f sort
  print sort @​harry;
  # prints AbelCaincatdogx
OK, add an example to show how to print
Abel
Cain
cat
dog
x

for my $i (sort @​harry){print $i,"\n"};
I suppose.

From @iabyn

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04​:11​:58PM -0000, Dan Jacobson wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Dan Jacobson
# Please include the string​: [perl #25261]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: http​://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=25261 >

$ perldoc -f sort
print sort @​harry;
# prints AbelCaincatdogx
OK, add an example to show how to print
Abel
Cain
cat
dog
x

for my $i (sort @​harry){print $i,"\n"};
I suppose.

Actually, the Unix sort command with the -u ("unique") option deletes
duplicates. So an example would be

  my %harry;
  @​harry{@​harry} = ();
  @​harry = sort keys %harry;

But I'm not convinced that perlfunc.pod needs that adding to it.

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From @iabyn

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 05​:37​:34PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote​:

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04​:11​:58PM -0000, Dan Jacobson wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Dan Jacobson
# Please include the string​: [perl #25261]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: http​://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=25261 >

$ perldoc -f sort
print sort @​harry;
# prints AbelCaincatdogx
OK, add an example to show how to print
Abel
Cain
cat
dog
x

for my $i (sort @​harry){print $i,"\n"};
I suppose.

Actually, the Unix sort command with the -u ("unique") option deletes
duplicates. So an example would be

my %harry;
@​harry\{@​harry\} = \(\);
@​harry = sort keys %harry;

But I'm not convinced that perlfunc.pod needs that adding to it.

Gack. Just realised I replied to a separate bug report and not a follow-up
to the first sort -u one.

Why on earth does the sort documentation need to show different ways to
print out a list?

--
Any [programming] language that doesn't occasionally surprise the
novice will pay for it by continually surprising the expert.
  -- Larry Wall

From @jidanni

Dave> Why on earth does the sort documentation need to show different ways to
Dave> print out a list?

Well you must admit that the current example, which glues all the
results together, would be very less what the first time user probably
wants to do.

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