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Description
General sorting macro
Syntax
PGsort( &sort_subroutine, @list);
Params
&sort_subroutine is a subroutine of two variables which defines order. It's output must be -1, 0, 1 depending on whether the first variable is less than, equal to or greater than the second.
@list is the list to be sorted.
Returns
Returns list of elements in @list, ignoring duplicates. The order is unspecified.
Examples
join(" ",PGsort( sub {$_[0] <=> $_[1]} , (23,2,10,11,11,31); ); returns "2 10 11 11 23 31"
Notes
Using the perl sort directly in problems is not allowed for two reasons. The first is that the hardwired $a and $b variables used by sort can interfere with other values assigned to $a and $b. The second is that it is pretty easy to create closed loops with sort that hang the program. Currently nothing is done to prevent this, but later we may wish to modify num_sort and lex_sort to catch this problem.
See Also
lex_sort
num_sort
uniq
Macro Definition File
PGbasicmacros.pl
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