A program that sorts an array. : sort « Array « Perl






  1. Perl
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  3. sort

A program that sorts an array.

     
#!/usr/local/bin/perl 

# read the array from standard input one item at a time 
print ("Enter the array to sort, one item at a time.\n"); 
print ("Enter an empty line to quit.\n"); 
$count = 1; 
$inputline = <STDIN>; 
chop ($inputline); 
while ($inputline ne "") { 
    @array[$count-1] = $inputline; 
    $count++; 
    $inputline = <STDIN>; 
    chop ($inputline); 
} 
 
# now sort the array 
$count = 1; 
while ($count < @array) { 
   $x = 1; 
   while ($x < @array) { 
       if ($array[$x - 1] gt $array[$x]) { 
          @array[$x-1,$x] = @array[$x,$x-1]; 
       } 
       $x++; 
    } 
$count++; 
} 

print ("@array\n");








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