#!/usr/bin/perl -l # Will sort command-line arguments alphabetically except that integers # (represented by a sequence of 9 or fewer consecutive digits) anywhere # in the strings are sorted in numeric order relative to each other. # The first version doesn't correctly sort integers with leading zeros. # Both versions output extra digits if # given a sequence of 10 or more digits. use Algorithm::Loops qw( Filter ); @ARGV= split ' ', if ! @ARGV; print join " ", Filter { s/\d(\d+)/$1/g } sort &Filter( sub { s/(\d+)/length($1).$1/ge }, @ARGV ); print join " ", Filter { s/\d(\d+)=(0*)=/$2$1/g } sort &Filter( sub { s/(0*)(\d+)/length($2)."$2=$1="/ge }, @ARGV ); __END__ m5 m45 m345 m05 m004 m0035 n2 l8